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405 sats \ 7 replies \ @Rock 11 Oct 2022 freebie \ on: Proton VPN introduces Stealth, a new & undetectable VPN protocol bitcoin
Hasn't proton collaborated with Swiss authorities to give up user information?
Link: ProtonMail Amends Its Policy After Giving Up an Activist’s Data
DYOR on privacy and understand what guarantees you are actually getting when using services like these.
Under swiss law an email provider has to comply. French activists didn't protect themselves with tor/vpn. For the VPN this is different, swiss jurisdiction don't have to snitch their clients. Remember that when you use VPN the data center which routes your traffic is what matters.
For example, if the data center routing your traffic is in France, law can just go to the DC provider and France will comply and snitch on you, and PROTON can't do shit.
That's why functions like secure core (just a hop on swiss DC) makes sense, because the French DT will snitch swiss IP and not yourse.
VPN shield is just as good as the law the countries you go through.
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Sort of, the devil is in the details on this one. I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with the details and to clarify what you mean by "give up user information".
But yeah, remember that subject lines are ALWAYS in plaintext, and that they are required by law to log which IP address you are using to access their service.
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That's a fucked up law.
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IIRC the ProtonMail user would have been safe if they accessed the service via a VPN. Even if it was there own VPN product.
Swiss VPN providers can't log IP addresses.
At least this is how I remember it when that unfortunate shit show happened.
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They don't have to give it but they definitely have it. There is no such things as "no logs VPN".
There are always logs or team wouldn't be able to fix shit
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Yeah by log, I meant give them to authorities.
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Correct
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