Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.

Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.

  • lemmy_in@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    6 months ago

    This has nothing to do with email as a protocol. The court order discussed in the article asked for the recovery email address of an account. No actual email data was transferred.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      72·
      6 months ago

      I’m aware. But some user data and metadata required for email protocol to function that can’t be encrypted is the fundamental issue. No provider can solve this issue, no matter how private and secure they are.

      In this specific case, the user was a dumbass and linked another email that was tied to Apple. My point was more about email being flawed by design and a need for an alternative protocol if we want true privacy.

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      27·
      6 months ago

      I wonder what the authorities could use the recovery email for? Did they gain access to the Protonmail through the recovery email?

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        6 months ago

        It’s in the article ffs. The recovery email was managed by Apple, so they made a request to Apple and obtained the users real identitiy. Once they arrest the user they can gain access to all the users accounts — unless the user had specifically guarded themselves against that possibility.

      • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        Recovery email was tied to Apple, so they asked Apple to private the data they needed. No email content was shared at any point from Proton.

      • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        If they could get into the recovery email, yeah, they could get into his Proton account. Also useful just for confirming the ID of the person in question.