Encrypted Messaging Service Proton Mail Disabled 2 Journalists' Accounts

The journalists had set up a new Proton Mail account to manage "responsible disclosures" for the article, which is where ethical hackers disclose vulnerabilities to organizations. A week after their article was published, the journalists found the account they had set up for responsible disclosure notifications had been suspended. A day later, one of the journalists found that his personal Proton Mail account had also been suspended.

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what are the alternatives?

Nostr.

SimpleX. So powerful and secure.

I used simpleX for a year and i liked it.

The only problem I ran into was trying to restore my "profile" after factory resetting a device. All connections lost. Then I didnt see much talk about it here since, so I kindof gave up. 😟

Totally. That's the downside of being purely P2P, local backups are required and their current backup system sucks.

Notifications suck too. Also, cross platform instances suck. If they fix all that, she's golden. Way harder than anything I've seen out there.

Fully agree.

Maybe I will try it again and start from scratch.

Tutanota is the only service you should be using right now.

Thank you!

Will migrate.

But also trying to avoid email as much as possible 😄🙏

Is this true? I am genuinely curious because I am a fan of Proton. What did Proton say? Did they give reasons?

said the company was “alerted by a CERT that certain accounts were being misused by hackers in violation of Proton’s Terms of Service,” leading to their disabling. A CERT is an official government agency working on cybersecurity, such as the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) in the Department of Homeland Security.

Proton’s CEO later announced that the accounts were reinstated, following another post by the company that said the company does “stand with journalists,” but that it “cannot see the content of accounts and therefore cannot always know when anti-abuse measures may inadvertently affect legitimate activism.”

ty for sharing. 👌

I migrated to mailfence.com for similar reasons a couple years ago. Have been building a better Nostr based messaging platform this year partly due to my bad experiences with these platforms. Will be releasing it for limited testing in '2-weeks'.

yes pls?

Didn’t know proton does that. It changes everything.

“If activities which are illegal under Swiss law, or other activities which are technically not illegal but damaging to Proton (such as sending spam) were not forbidden, Proton would unfortunately become blocked by other email providers, hurting legitimate users.