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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldThis is the way
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    2 days ago

    I type like 1000 words, then I realized I’m gonna look so stupid if nobody reads it and it remains at 1 vote, so I just delete it before I embarass myself.

    (I don’t care about upvotes, I just want to get the acknowledgement that someone read it so I know my time wasn’t wasted.)

    Edit: I wish there was a “read” button. It’s for the times when you acknowledge reading it but you don’t like it enough to upvote it.

    Can someone add this to Lemmy? 👀








  • I don’t think changes anything. Hasan was detained by CBP, not ICE.

    And you can’t exactly just abolish CBP. Most Americans still would want “secure borders”

    And modern society to too entangled with the concept of the state and law enforcement that I don’t see any way of any law enforcement organization to just be abolished. There no political will to do so.

    Most Americans lean liberal, not leftist.

    Maybe so reforms and a “you can’t detain/arrest non-violent undocumented immigrants” rule but that’s the most I realistically see happening.

    You abolish ICE, they are just gonna use CBP, FBI, National Guard, or whatever. I mean, if they are gonna violate laws, they will do so reguardless of what name/banner the Gestapo is labeled under.




  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.workstoPrivacy@lemmy.mlMullvad or Proton VPN?
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    6 days ago

    Excerpts from your third link https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/

    As usual, the devil is in the details—ProtonMail’s original policy simply said that the service does not keep IP logs “by default.” However, as a Swiss company, ProtonMail was obliged to comply with a Swiss court’s demand that it begin logging IP address and browser fingerprint information for a particular ProtonMail account.

    According to multiple statements ProtonMail issued on Monday, it was unable to appeal the Swiss demand for IP logging on that account. The service could not appeal both because a Swiss law had actually been broken and because “legal tools for serious crimes” were used—tools that ProtonMail believes were not appropriate to the case at hand, but which it was legally require to comply with.

    ProtonMail also operates a VPN service called ProtonVPN, and it points out that Swiss law prohibits the country’s courts from compelling a VPN service to log IP addresses. In theory, if Youth for Climate had used ProtonVPN to access ProtonMail, the Swiss court could not have compelled the service to expose its “real” IP address.

    Proton did not voluntarily log IPs, they were under a lawful court order and were out of appeal options.

    Like I said, no one running a service will go to jail for you. None.

    Not ProtonVPN, not Mullvad, not IVPN, not Lemmy Instances.

    If a legal court order is received, they will conply after they run out of appeals

    Imagine you run one of these services, and you received a lawful order in your jurisdiction.

    You can choose to turn over data or go to jail for a long time.

    Would you go to jail to protect user privacy?

    That’s why its not only a company’s privacy practices you need to worry about, but also the jurisdiction. Choose a service that’s is in a privacy friendly jurisdiction.

    Also, this is about Protonmail, which is under different laws than ProtonVPN.


  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.workstoPrivacy@lemmy.mlMullvad or Proton VPN?
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    That’s because no one running a service will go to jail for you. None.

    Not ProtonVPN, not Mullvad, not IVPN, not Lemmy Instances.

    Imagine you run one of these, and you received a lawful order in your jurisdiction.

    Turn over data or go to jail for a long time.

    Would you go to jail to protect user privacy?

    The only thing Proton does better is because they are under Swiss Jurisdiction, which has stricter control over when a court order can be issued. But if a court order goes to Proton, they can’t ignore it.

    Also: Protonmail =/= ProtonVPN, they are under different laws. In Switzerland, Mail providers have to provide IP addresses upon a subpoena, VPN providers do not. If those users had used ProtonVPN to access their Protonmail, they’d be safe.