Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton’s advisory board

Wasn't aware of that claim of starting the open source movement! How someone ever thought they would get away with a claim as silly as that is beyond me.

He's also sold a gimmicky cryptoart NFT through Sotheby’s, contributing to and indirectly endorsing environmental destruction. He of all people should be leading by example with how to make existing and future technologies more environmentally-friendly.

I'll take a provider that is transparent over one that makes claims they cannot backup. cock.li is more transparent in that regard despite being a complete meme.

Agreed! Where are the replacements for us to test out :)

> Is anyone working on an "email like" app that runs on Signal?

That is unlikely to ever happen as Signal doesn't allow any kind of third party clients. https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

That said Matrix does lend itself to this. It's also worth noting one of the major VCs (Notion) that funded that has an interest in other email companies. So who knows maybe we will see an email message client based on Matrix protocol.

It certainly would be an improvement on relying on systems such as PGP and allow universal E2EE, but also E2EE to the border (required for many government/corporate) situations where auditing is required.

> I'm struggling to figure out what comes after ProtonMail. It's clearly an evolutionary dead end but what succeeds it?

Likely nothing. Many people that use services like this don't require anonymity. For that the threat model is absolutely fine. People seem to forget this page has existed literally since 2014: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-threat-model/

I think people have blown this case out of proportion without really having any facts. Minimal details are actually known the nature of what the criminal charges are about.

There hasn't been any public verified information (court documents etc) pertaining to why the request was made. The most ProtonMail has said is that it was a judicial request made in Swizterland, and there was no avenue to appeal the request.

Media latched on to sensationalist phrases like "climate activist" and "squatter" and those things in itself don't actually tell us very much about the nature of the charges and evidence against the suspect. Those things may not even be the reason the request was made.

I have Tutanota to be quite reliable end to end encryption and no ip logging. Also provides ability to send encrypted mail with pre shared passwords. Good client apps too.

Given Protonmail trust issues Sir Lee ought to have avoided.

Signal mail service/client would be great too. Long time FastMail user but they too give fuzzy answers on mail privacy. Mailbox.org seems to be decent with encryption at rest.

Signal also knows your IP address. They also know your phone number. So worse in this case than email.

You misunderstood the question. He is asking why are they honoring his title as Knight in Switzerland, when noble titles are usually abolished in republics.

A good example of this can be seen in the Constitution of the US. "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Everyone who the swiss gov explicitly forces them to?

You cannot negotiate and execute a deal with TimBL in one day. Anyone like that will see your desperate urgency as a major red flag and guys like him, their personal reputation is their only asset (W3C is irrelevant)

They apparently log the IP addresses for customers where they receive a warrant from the local authorities. Not everyone’s IP and they don’t just give them away.

But on the positive side, one does not have to use PM. There’s plenty of encrypted e-mail providers out there that will not store any info whatsoever on their customers and should the police ever dare question them they’d rather die shooting than give them anything anyway.

i run a mailinabox for almost a year now. had initial trouble with gmail. now its all fine and i have no trouble connecting to anyone. as i said, when you pay with crypto, the VPS provider has what data on you? you obviously wont use your real name to sign up for vps or domain so what can they give besides access to the server? even if that was done, won't you know?