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Does someone know the organizational structure of Proton and Tutanota? How democratic is it? How hierarchical is it? How are decisions made? How are tasks determined and distributed? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by snek_boi@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] angelsomething@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think prolly because of this https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/protonmail-scandal-tarnishes-swiss-privacy-reputation-/46952640

[–] AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ProtonMail also guaranteed that "by default" it would not store any IP addresses that could be linked to users' email accounts.

They don't store IP addresses by default but when required to by law, they don't have a choice just like any other company would.

Bad OPSEC by the activist, Protons hands were tied

[–] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

They actually also have an onion service: https://proton.me/tor

They should probably use the Onion-Location extension http header though, imo.

When I accessed their front page through tor,it did not auto-redirect to onion >.<, even though I have that setting enabled.

[–] envis10n@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

This has been argued over for a long time now. They routinely fight against orders from foreign governments (foreign to Switzerland). When one case comes along and the Swiss government actually says they need the information, and the courts say Proton has to abide, they finally do. This somehow negates every other time the government has come knocking and been told to fuck off? They tried, the courts said they had to do it, so they did. If they didn't, the service would be gone now.