Let's say I buy Mullvad access with a credit card, then access my otherwise-unrelated Proton Mail account via Mullvad.
How are police going to find me behind that hop?
How are police going to find me behind that hop?
Then mail them your money
I think most people are considering less serious threat models
I would say most people are concerned with dragnets, not targeted attacks. There's quite a lot you can hide from the government in terms of dragnets, in the same way you'd hide from big tech.
"Hide" isn't the right word. "Defend from" I think is probably better. Defending our constitutional rights from government and defending our privacy from big tech.
I'm actually perfectly okay with governments in targeted attacks (where a warrant is reasonably given). I'm just not okay with police being lazy.
Opsec is hard and most activists in western countries don't take it seriously. It's not like we live in PRC or DPRK right?
Ironically, it is likely far harder for PRC or DPRK to get data from Proton than it is for Spanish police.
Right. Western governments are much, much better at mass covert surveillance.
> it is likely far harder for PRC or DPRK to get data from Proton than it is for Spanish police
You balk at the idea of a western government being oppressive while pointing out that our “secure” email services can be easily compromised by government action.
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-d...
“Ideally, in our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption,” Spanish representatives said in the document.