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Originally Posted by dantheman
--ProtonMail Shares Activist's IP Address With Authorities Despite Its "No Log" Policy
--https://thehackernews.com/2021/09/protonmail-shares-activists-ip-address.html
--Mon Sep 06 2021 07:47:59 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
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This continues to reinforce my opinion that if you want anonymity and unprecedented privacy, you have to make it yourself and trust no one to do it for you. I'd do the same if legally required and I make no secret about it. There's a difference in standing behind your customers and being willing to take the fall for them. We all saw what happened with Lavabit, Ladar and all of his customers paid the price for protecting Snowden. You'd have to have nothing to lose to risk everything you have for one customer. But even that ignores how many other customers had to pay the price, so it's hard for even customers to trust that their data is safe with someone who would take the fall for them.
Luckily the only time law enforcement has reached out to me, I had nothing of value for them. I hope that by making it known that I won't risk everything and everyone, no one who would ask me to would be on my servers.