They are not malicious at all. They are like saints compared to the likes of Alphabet (Google) and NSO Group. The issue is the legal framework they are operating on. It is either they give up customer data to authorities or they get lawsuits and shut down. The best thing to do is look for alternatives that cannot be taken over by legal authorities.
They are not malicious at all. They are like saints compared to the likes of Alphabet (Google) and NSO Group. The issue is the legal framework they are operating on. It is either they give up customer data to authorities or they get lawsuits and shut down. The best thing to do is look for alternatives that cannot be taken over by legal authorities.
https://getsession.org
https://telegram.org
https://briarproject.org
https://signal.org
Are all well reviewed projects that can be way more private and secure than E-mail (regardless of encryption). !PIZZA
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Ah, thank you so much for this long explanation. I have one more question in mind.
Do you think it makes sense to use ProtonVpn?
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VPN is useful when traveling and to to get around region restrictions. But for increasing privacy at home it's more a placebo.
Could you please explain this a little more?
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Most communication is already “https://” encrypted and instead of your internet provider it's the VPN provider who knows your meta data.
Note that VPN are still useful for hiding your geographic location.
When it comes to messengers Threema is king of the hill.
https://threema.ch/en/messenger-vergleich
As for E-Mail: you won't get around using PGP/GPG and scrap browser based E-Mail all-together.
Speaking of it: Threema isn't browser based either.