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Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

following a legal complaint filed by New Delhi-based M Moser Design Associates. The local firm alleged that its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.

in January, the New Delhi-based firm called for the regulation or blocking of Proton Mail in India, as the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.

this has nothing to do with encryption services offered by proton. any email provider could fall into this pitfall.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Unless this is being used as a pretext to block a service they wanted to block anyway for other reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't most other providers just give up the senders' details immediately?

(Edit: less absolute)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

i haven't seen any data to that effect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

I rather thought that was one of the main selling points of the Proton services.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Honestly this is the text book definition of: "We do not understand anything about the technology so just ban it all together" They are completely missing the point that its a GDPR compliant privacy focused platform, Of course people are going to abuse that.

But to enact such a draconian measure is foolish imho.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can India even block ProtonMail if the users also have ProtonVPN?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

The article is not very clear, but my interpretation is that this is about the e-mails sent from Proton Mail, not users being able to access the Proton Mail web site.

A VPN won't help you if the server for the recipient of the e-mail drops the e-mail.

So, basically imagine that all Internet service providers in India have to block any e-mail from @proton.me and not deliver them. I think that's the idea.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

could they theoretically just block protonvpns ip range at an isp level?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If you start blocking VPNs you are cutting off your country from most telework/outsourcing because corporations need VPNs to their branch offices.

This is an acceptable trade off for Russia, probably not for India.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

you dont block off all vpns, the ips proton vpn uses. vpns in china work the same way.. not all vpns work in china, but they do exist

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

A state level block on protonvpn would be at the IP block level based on known, published exit nodes.

Corporate VPNs are point to point and would not be impacted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think protonmail can work with tor

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

India is scaring me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools. The Indian government’s IT ministry reportedly notified internet providers to block Proton Mail at the request of law enforcement. However, the Swiss federal authorities intervened to prevent the blocking of Proton Mail taking effect.

Oh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Temporary blocking doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Perhaps even a longer term one if Swiss federal authorities are going to meddle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

this is effectively an endorsement for the rest of the world