It's nice to see that they're giving the finger to the Swiss government but ultimately it doesn't matter as many jurisdictions are mandating the same things.
I've always seen Proton benefits as a moot point because it's not E2E to the other side. You can encrypt all you want but as soon as you actually communicate with anyone (this is the email after all) you are now give all your messages to a third party often times without any encryption at all.
There are a lot of things what can leak your correspondence as is before it would land in someone's mailbox.
I'm curious why you think this?
Take two parties that run their own email servers. One sends an email to the other. Their server opens a TLS connection to the other server and sends the email.
This is E2EE, no?
Given this is possible, is email truly *inherently* insecure? Or is the problem the centralization/sharing of email in free hosts?
Like most issues of privacy, you can be absolutely perfect but all it takes is any of your contacts to make a common mistake and you are toast.
If a system can only be secure if every participant acts perfectly, and goes through all the hoops required to host their own private infra securely, well, that seems inherently insecure to me.
Email was designed for a different age. All the bolt-on improvements have not fundamentally changed this.
Except the metadata I guess.
if you are scared of spooks using metadata, that can be managed with some warwalking around cafes/campus, a wifi extender, a burner phone tether, and action in discretion.
at that point WTF your doing had better be a noble cause, not a malediction.