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I guess they will receive their next threat from a gmail account?

You're not thinking big enough. Next email should come from the Indian government's email.

Considering how tech aware they are, I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of indian gov email acounts with passwords like 1234...

This would make things interesting, since they'd have to ban governmental use of email then.

What if it comes by postal mail i.e. India Post?

What if it comes by a pigeon? Oh no!

Erm. They are arresting pigeons already:

https://apnews.com/article/india-chinese-spy-pigeon-f3543790...

which is easier to trace presumably?

I suppose not by much if you create a new one or use somebody else’s data. I’m sure the proton one wasn’t also someone’s main email account.

But Google will usually provide logs/IP addresses (not content) to police without a warrant, which can be used to start tracking down the culprit. It isn't clear from the report if the Police got a warrant or even made a request to ProtonMail.

Most do not just sign in to a compromised account and send and email from their laptop... It usually involves some level of obscurity. Im sure if they want to find out bad enough they will- but I would be surprised if this was sent by someone just sitting there.

> But Google will usually provide logs/IP addresses (not content) to police without a warrant, which can be used to start tracking down the culprit.

Not in Canada. Google has been very clear they don't give anything to law enforcement without a warrant.

Where are you getting your information from? Because its very scary if true.

you used to be able to create a protonmail account using Tor.... so I guess it might be easier

You still can.

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