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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester (www.404media.co)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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What a complete idiot. You create a protest email account linked to your credit card?

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[–] 55 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I think the bigger issue is that the FBI was able to obtain the data.

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  • [+] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    and they offer both crypto and literal envelopes full of cash as payment methods.

    and they provide a guide for connecting to their onion service over tor.

    This is just an issue of someone not understanding their threat model or the services offered.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 6 months ago

    They have also said before too that they're not trying to make like snowden level privacy or something. To plan on doing illegal stuff coordinating with an email account you paid for by credit card is really foolish.

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    • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    What proton alternatives are recommended?

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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Are there uBlock filters to just remove the paywall from sites like this?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Not that I'm aware of, but you can always put archive.is in front of the url to get an archived copy that isn't paywalled, like so: https://archive.is/www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

    But also 404 media is great and you should subscribe to them.

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    • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Proton's response

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