sure and encryption isn't even the issue here. i don't defend ppl sending others threads via mail, that's unquestionable a very dumb move, but in case you do something else that is privacy sensitive to you - like being a whistleblower, leaking stuff - you should know what you're doing to protect your identity. using an encrypted, swiss mail service and then have like gmail as your recovery address and use that very mail to register on a social media site isn't even trying - could have just attatched his phone number in the mail to get over it :
in that case, good for the victim, but bad for proton because there are still so many ppl around thinking services like proton stand above the law and would rather face court than to send the feds a .zip with metadata that could be completly useless if the account was used right.
i tried and i failed. not because my friends didn't want to switch, but because the software is hillariously bad. problems with the encryption left and right, smaller instances having downtimes multiple times a week (what's the use of a federated service if anyone only uses the same one server?), buggy clients - after a few months we shut it down and moved to threema for groupchats.
to be fair, to buy albums off sites like bandcamp, cutting out greedy multinational media conglomerates and give the money to the ppl actually working on it (yeah, i know, fees, welcome to distribution) and getting basically every (losslees/hr) codec in return for "name your price"-conditions makes it questionable to pirate some indie album to save like three bucks.
the company i'm currently working at started to adopt jitsi meet when the lockdowns began and it worked just fine, but some higher up execs found it to be not fancy enough so they introduced zoom and since them the only ones using jitsi - we even licenced and branded it for our needs - are those outside the ceo/cfo-circles. i always try to advocate for "secure, private" services and software to co-workers, successfully introduced signal instead of whatsapp for work related chats, but in case of zoom, i'm biting on concrete. "it's so convenient and since we pay for it .."
you can use services like proton as much as you want, if you interlink other, more transparent accounts and infos about yourself to it, there's no one to blame but yourself when the feds knock on your door eventually. "fcked around and found out".
same problem we had back in the ie5/6 days: it was just there and most people don't care. i physically cringe when i watch co-workers using chrome with not even a basic adblocker installed, klicking away ads, promts, pop-ups, videos and whatnot just to access a news article. it's horrible!
it's funny how the "when we were kids, whe didn't even had a tv at home and we were happy"-routine from our grandparents moved up to "we watched the same episode on vhs on repeat!" now millennials are getting older.
streaming hit the wall the moment every corp wanted to make their own service to cut out netflix. the boom in streaming happend - at least in most parts of europe - because basically everything anyone wanted (even some hbo titles) had been on netflix for 10 eurobucks a month and now you have to sub at least three services for almost thrice the price each. and especially disney+ is complete trash if you're not a marvel/star wars stockholm syndrome victim. now asking for even more in times of inflation and recession is a slap into the face of subscribers.
mishimaenjoyer @ mishimaenjoyer @kbin.social Posts 1Comments 153Joined 2 yr. ago
Threema for messaging. More private and secure than Signal. I use it for 10 years with no issues.