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They probably sent the threats themselves to justify banning Proton Mail, because they want to destroy privacy and encryption.
Yes, privacy and encryption are always the enemy of authoritarians. They enable dissent
Hopefully that doesn’t go through. This could be grounds for blocking something else like tutanota. Hell, if it works in India other might follow.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a statement, a Proton spokesperson told Indian daily Hindustan Times that the firm condemns the “potential block as a misguided measure that only serves to harm ordinary people.”
It will not prevent cybercriminals from sending threats with another email service and will not be effective if the perpetrators are located outside of India.”
Hindustan Times reported Thursday that the Indian IT Ministry had issued a notice to local internet service providers to block Proton Mail at the request of the Tamil Nadu police.
D. Ashok Kumar, a senior cyber crime wing police officer in Tamil Nadu, told Moneycontrol on Friday that he had sent the request to the IT Ministry to block access to Proton Mail.
Ashok Kumar, who is also the nodal officer for blocking orders in the state, said Proton Mail was “least responsive” in sharing details about the suspects who had sent the bomb threats.
Many lawmakers and privacy advocacy groups expressed concerns over the possible block of Proton Mail in India.
The original article contains 367 words, the summary contains 166 words. Saved 55%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
I’m surprised that they didn’t use the “think on the children!” red herring yet. They probably will in the future, given that governments (not just India’s, but all of them) have a burning hate against anything privacy.
Yay. Less spam.
???
Can we get away from email?
It’s not a secure form of communication anyway. I want my messages to be e2e encrypted so I know I am the only one that can read them
Congrats, you just invented ProtonMail
Its not encrypted when 99% of your contacts aren’t on Proton.
You can encrypt it for non-Proton users very easily.
oh? i have friends that use protonmail and i’ve asked them to do it. no one has succeeded yet
Yep, it just has you set a password, confirm it, and even set a hint if you want. Works on web or mobile.
you’re talking about sending a link to a password protected message?
Yes, there’s no other implementation I know of for provider-to-provider encrypted email. O365 is very similar. Recipients can then reply back too and the Proton user receives it directly.
Then use Proton Mail
What a stupid thing to say.
Whatever your favorite (and probably shitty) proprietary or open source messaging service - not everybody uses it. But hey, everyone has email, so let’s kill that.
BTW since you said encryption is important to you: your walled-garden messaging service has a much easier time profiling you and your friends than they would in a heterogenous environment like email. They don’t need the content anyway, just metadata.
Oh no, profiling. Google can read your emails directly
No, they can’t since I don’t have a Google mail address. Even if I had, they’d have a harder time building a social graph when I communicate with others outside of Gmail.
They don’t need the content anyway, just metadata.
ProtonMail uses PGP encryption to encrypt emails, which means your meta data, including subject line is vulnerable to data collection. Also there is no forward secrecy with current PGP standard. See quotes from below:
We have built Proton Mail with PGP fully integrated, … All messages between Proton Mail users are automatically end-to-end encrypted.
https://proton.me/support/how-to-use-pgp
Subject lines and recipient/sender email addresses are encrypted but not end-to-end encrypted.
https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-encryption-explained
PGP (especially for email) exposes much more info to outside party than any good communication protocol, like the signal protocol or OMEMO used by XMPP.
you can e2e encrypt emails though?
And then just go PGP if you want even more security.
Yet everyone sends me one time passwords in plain text
That’s what s/mime does. If it were as easy to get personal certs as it is to get server certs through letsencrypt, everyone could easily sign and encrypt mail.
I can certainly do it anyway, but you’d have to trust my self signed cert.
That said, it’s pretty rare to find relays these days that are not using tls for transport, so there’s that.
autocrypt has been around a while. get your contacts to use it.
