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Oh my goodness, the stupidity is off the charts
The fight is over whether Apple must officially break into their code in the normal way
It doesn’t preclude a back door
There could be a backdoor exploit program so people can acess the phones and see everything in them through the cellular modem in certain parts of the government.
If other parts of the government were not privy to this, they could get into an argument in open court about breaking their “privacy” generally
Do you think if there was a gag order the lawyer representing Apple would write “But wait, this is an irrelivant debate because there’s actually another backdoor exploit?”
Some of these phines could have been in airplane mode also making 1 type of exploit not usable.
You do not know what the fuck you are talking about at all.
Do you think an attorney for Apple is going to go into a court and say “The secret court made us put a baxkdoor into this part of tge phone, so why are we even arguing about this?” Such a lawyer would be jailed. You are incredibly naive and your reasoning is mostly “but Apple said so”
The code is closed source.
i wonder if they are a honeypot too
If you use a free tier VPN, which doesn’t allow torrenting, then connect tor to it, then connect another non-tor encrypted connection to that (such as a different VPN), if you torrent from the different VPN (an encrypted VPN stream that passes through Proton), they still detect torrenting. This suggests advanced DPI. What no log VPN needs DPI?
They also have dark design elements including logs you have to turn off by default.
Proton also does aggressive scanning of certain things users do and will shut down accounts based on that. The problem is what privacy focused company scans user stuff like that?
They also log multiple browser metrics when signing up or at least access them, such as audio context fingerprints. Is that really important for the sign up process?
It wasn’t bad they gave up info to jail an activist, it was bad they said in their marketing materials they couldnt and didnt do that.
ProtonVPN also for many years never accepted Monero and their email didn’t as well. So they care about privacy, but won’t accept the privacy crypto? There wasn’t a rational explanation for it, unless they are a honeypot. There were third parties who could have accepted the funds. The whole thing was unusual. It was incredibly suspicious. If you care about privacy so much, why not accept Monero for your email services? This is the most damning part of this. If they are a honeypot, it makes sense, if they aren’t it’s a head scratcher.
It could be a coincidence? Possibly? But probably it isn’t. Everyone who loves privacy loves XMR. They don’t like XMR. You know who hates XMR? Governments. And so if someone is saying “I love privacy” and has numerous complex programs released, but then says XMR is too hard to accept, it should indicate something is odd.