Thanks for being a voice of sanity. While I don’t care for defending celebrities on the internet, I also don’t care for purity testing, and since I have been a booster of his work and ideas on occasion, wanted to do a bit of due diligence and had largely come to the same “smoke but no actual fire” conclusion

On that last point, I was really curious so I suited up and checked it out: https://kiwifarms.st/search/39060321/?t=post&c[content]=post&c[users]=larossmann&o=date

He has only posted on exactly one thread, funnily enough about him (but not started by him) and all of the comments I read have been talking about various bits of content, but I did not see anything that I would consider out-of-character or promoting hate in my opinion.

Is this a good look? Not great for sure, since Kiwi Farms is definitely an edgelord paradise. But oddly enough, its at least consistent with his ethos, since he always talks about being bipartisan.

That is certainly a take, but an app is just one attack surface for interacting with a service, and is not inherently secure or insecure; who you trust with your data is the far more relevant part here.

And that also doesn’t matter when you are forced to interact with a government service or essential utilities provider who then subsequently puts your data into the hands of the same high profit, low value shitware companies that have these agencies/organisations locked-in. What are you going to do then? Move to the woods?

No, it won’t stop until there is real accountability with teeth. Punish these fuckers for their incompetence with actual jail time for directors, otherwise fines are just the cost of doing business.

Well if you make me actually explain it, I’m going to sound like an asshole

Too late muchacho… you’re already giving real big superiority vibes here

It’s right there in your copy-paste my dude, “BY DEFAULT”.

The jackass(es) who actually was at risk went the extra step to enable IP address logging, which means that when Proton had to comply with a lawful court order, they actually had data to give.

Proton is a company like any other that has to comply with laws in the country they operate in, but unlike a lot of other companies, they don’t log data UNLESS YOU ASK THEM TO.

Moral of the story is, like has oft been repeated, know your threat model and plan appropriately.