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Re:ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails by brobinson on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:11PM (#36639922)
They are based in Australia, though.
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Re:ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails by MrVandemar on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:16PM (#36639960)
Is that a negative?

I guess the redback spiders do make nests in the server-racks sometimes.

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Re:ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails by TheHappyOddish on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:15PM (#36639952)
Good? You seem to be implying that's a worse thing than wherever Proton Mail is based, but haven't stated why.
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Re:ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails by davejk on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:25PM (#36640029)
Australian law allows the government to demand access to your email, and Fastmail hold the encryption keys. That's not the case for Switzerland.
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Re:ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails by drexlspivey on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:47PM (#36640169)
What encryption keys? Fastmail doesnt offer encrypted email
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Re:ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails by davejk on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:06PM (#36640296)
Data at rest in encrypted volumes. That's not saying much, obviously; you'd hope everyone is using encrypted storage for user data by now.
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Re:ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails by spiderice on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:30PM (#36640050)
Not GP, but I would imagine they’re referring to Australia’s not-so-stellar track record with encryption lately.
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Re:ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails by strken on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:25PM (#36640027)
It's Swiss. From memory they have pretty good legal protections for privacy, at least compared to Australia.
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