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article: https://signal.org/bigbrother/district-of-columbia/

context: https://technologymagazine.com/cloud-and-cybersecurity/protonmail-under-fire-over-data-handover

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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Huh wait does using Tor actually help with mail privacy in any way? I know Tor hides pretty much as much as can be hidden about the user, but for mailing, don't you need to give out your personal details to sign up regardless?

[–] TheFool@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not generally but since in this case they had to record and hand over the IPs used to access the Proton Mail account, if he had used TOR they couldn’t have handed over anything useful

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Aha got it