Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"
Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it's an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!
Honestly, building a mail server isn't that hard if you aren't afraid of the command line.
True, but what you should really be afraid of these days are spam filters and hackers. As much as I'd love to selfhost my own mail server, IMHO it's just not worth the risk of important emails getting flagged as spam (both outgoing and incoming), or losing control of accounts due to a zero day attack or other means. The latter might sound far-fetched but I just saw it happen firsthand to a friend. The modern internet is a battleground!
Must be talking about a dwarf Trump pays to wipe his ass.
Why can't we have nice things?
Fuck me, I now feel like a clown for taking advantage of that lifetime subscription I bought a couple of months back.
well at least they won't get any money for it
well this makes me slightly less fomo'd after going for tuta and mullvad- but i'm probably jinxing it rn ;-;
People somehow still surprised by Switzerland being neutral on Naziism
I don't think we can be blamed for Andy Yang. He's Taiwanese and studied in the US. It seems he just worked at CERN and that's why he was in Switzerland when he started Proton.
Is he right about the start of the anti-trust action ?
I wonder what is the percentage of nuts tech ceos.
Seems to be abnormally high
the ruling class will always support each other to protect their own class interests. they have what we lack - class solidarity. the only path forwards, which is the path of our own liberation, is uniting the proletariat and transitioning away from capitalism.
Rich people tend not be good people in general
Damn, this sucks. I fled Google for Proton and use it for email, files, and my own domain email.
if you have your own domain, then moving off of proton is very painless
I see a lot of good discussion here. I've been on proton for years now, using my own domain. While true that Andy is one of 5 board members, and it's a nonprofit etc, these statements are raising hairs on my neck, personally.
Does anyone have a good guide on problems associated with self-hosting email?
You're gonna need a few books and a full time engineer
I think the main difficulty is getting companies like Gmail to recognize your domain as legitimate, as they don't by default
By default it should be OK. The problem is if your IP was previously used by someone bad before it recycled to you.
But it you have a server for a decade and have held the IP the whole time, you should be OK if you setup your email server correctly (which you probably won't)