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Wait for them to be audited. Trusting a company just because they say the right thing is silly.
I know people are up in arms about Andy Yens silly comments, which is fair but, Proton is a proven service.
If your looking for an alternative go for another proven service such as Tuta or Mailbox.org
I heard Tuta is a honeypot. Is this not the case?
People will tell you that everything is a honeypot. In fact, I am a honeypot
It's obviously not impossible, but you'll find people calling every single private messaging platform honeypots. I don't recall seeing any convincing proof for Tuta, personally.
Fair. :)
A decent explanation. Thank you. :)
Tuta has already been through some cases linked to German court orders to decrypt emails received in the inbox of alleged criminals, just like any other company that is subject to the legislation of its respective country (I don't know the difference with Proton, which until now I only found out about the delivery of IPs, not the content of the emails themselves, based on Swiss court orders), but I don't believe it is a honeypot because Tuta has clarified the entire issue and still has credibility in the privacy community.
I appreciate you explaining this to me. :)
Yes however they have also had servers seized before... I think it's not unrealistic for some to believe they could be compromised after that.
Good point!
It's actually a good question and you're getting a lot of shit for it from people who seem to not even know where this accusation comes from.
https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-not-a-honeypot
It can be a lie, a mistake, or truth. It can even be a false flag accusation to destroy their reputation. We don't really know.
When looking into this it's good to also know about Tor Mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Mail
There might have been some confusion between Tutanota and Tor Mail.
I don't think anybody here will be able to actually answer it.
No, a teapot, and Bertrand Russell wants a word..
tuta is legit. there are many dumb people on the internet telling dumb things