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Every accusation is a confession...

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

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I would be considerably less mad if he could speak like a normal human. As it is, every time he opens his mouth, hot shame gushes out, that we managed to ask for and get this lummox as our chief.

I would go from “apoplectic” to merely “enraged”.

Does Proton really support Trump? A deeper analysis (and surprising findings) Recently, allegations surfaced on Reddit that Proton (or at least Proton’s CEO) supports Trump. Hillary Keverenge from Tech-Issues Today…

Yeah, that was pretty much a big blowup that very much misinterpreted him.

medium.com/@ovenplayer/... is a good breakdown.

People jumped to crazy conclusions over that.

Are you saying that Andy Yen is pro-GOP or pro-Trump? Are you basing that on the kerfuffle over his praise of the Gail Slater pick for AAG by Trump?

Trump intuitively knows that anyone paying deference to him isn't to be trusted or respected.

Yeah, that's the dude.

It's suspicious in the sense that he would rather silence valid criticism than possibly defend himself, which marks him as an untrustworthy source for information. I don't think it's necessarily suspicious in the sense of him being a paid bad actor. He's just fragile.

Who do you think we are, hockey players?

It was the dude in the other thread today where both you and I commented. He blocked me.

I consider myself very left, but also accept the existence of realpolitik, and that you can't always get what you want.

Yeah, someone who reposted this article blocked me for saying this same thing.

I have always hoped people could better recognize the difference between ideological enemies, and allies who have nuanced takes on things. I live in continual disappointment.

I do like 404, read the site a lot, but I would not believe them to essentially have a batphone that rings the moment Swiss authorities subpoena something for the FBI.

Are things like that auto-surfaced to a publicly-available resource in Switzerland? If so, I'd move more in your direction.

The user certainly had a way to prevent this: the traceability of their payment method was under their control.

It's best framed as, "To what extent should Proton go to protect the user from their own casually poor privacy decisions?"

And yours is a fair take.

Your comment made me look through some of Proton's web pages relating to their privacy messaging, and what I didn't find is a page on, "What Proton has to do when compelled" that might make strict privacy management easier for users. That seems like a glaring omission.

Would it have? On what do you base that presumption? If you, say, live in Switzerland, are you sure every event like this got reported on?

Honest question: while I can picture a world in which it can be true, I can also see this kind of action being too small to achieve significant reporting.

Proton accepts bitcoin and other non-traceable payment methods.

If your privacy concern rises to "the FBI wants to know who I am" levels, then I'd say the primary onus is on the user to do things like "not use your credit card for $INTERESTINGACTIVITIES."

It says the FBI obtained the information from the Swiss authorities, who I assume obtained it from Proton via a subpoena. The article is not clear on that point, but it is an educated guess.

Reading the comments here, this post is acting as fundamentally dishonest propaganda.

Proton disclosed what they had to, to Swiss law enforcement, what any service would have had to disclose. They did not hand over emails.

That the info enabled the FBI to trace the user is not Proton's fault.

Is there any email service that will not respond to subpoenas from law enforcement in their jurisdiction?

PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell?

COLBY: Defer to you

R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war'

C: Defer to you

R: That was actually you

MARINE: “NO ONE WANTS TO DIE FOR ISRAEL”

U.S. Marine Brian McGinnis got dragged out of a senate hearing for standing up and saying what everyone is thinking.

More of this from the United States armed forces

Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.

"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."

www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

"Emil Klinger...no, I can't believe it, either."

🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. We are focused on the wrong 1%… it’s not left vs. right, it’s top vs. bottom.”

No More WARS! Don't Tread! America First We hate Pedos! NAGA THEN More WARS! MAGA is a Stupidity Competition Obey! Send 40\ Billion to Argentina! We are Pedos! PAMAIR KANGA AALIN MARRCA RANAIN Jemocratie Socialists NOW

Everything they do is about control. It's all about control.

It's not about morality, or love, or protecting anything, it's about control.

Just rage filled right now.

Too true. How they went *so* fucking crazy is still a puzzle.

It felt like we were going to start working on our awesome lunar colony jet-pack future. No more wars, just growing and prospering.

The fuck happened?