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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's pretty strong and I've never seen or heard anything like it before. If it's true I'm betting the rest of Lemmy would like some details, too.

[–] ramenu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No support for Monero despite it being requested on uservoice 6 years ago. A Bitcoin wallet (seriously?) which is easily traceable. Important email metadata is also not zero access encrypted (i.e., subject headers, from/to headers) which leaks a substantial amount of information even if the body is encrypted. Not to mention they had clearnet redirects from their onion service a while back, something a lot of honeypots usually do.

Even if it's not a honeypot, you're sure as hell not getting any privacy with Proton. That's for sure.

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can't e2e the to and from headers in an email. that's a problem with the protocol, not with proton. I'd assume the subject line falls into a similar bucket, because mailservers probably want to use it to filter spam

[–] ramenu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I never said anything about E2EE. Please re-read what I wrote carefully.