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The question is: is ProtonMail run by a bunch of naive physicists or a carefully created honeytrap?



There is precedent for that, a Swiss crypto company which sold NSA backdoored crypto systems to the Iranians:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG


There's precedent because they are Swiss?


¿Por qué no los dos?


translation: why not both?

indeed. however, a naive physicist facing a reality (in the form of evidence that contradict their public stance) will adjust the stance, issue an apology, correct the message, etc.

so the answer is clear.


No it's not.

The privacy debate is not black and white, especially concerning the obligation of service-providers to go to bat for every customer that a lawfully designated entity has the legal authority to investigate.

In the black and white world you're living in, there is no privacy, as no one can live up to your standards.




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