undefined | Better HN

0 pointsnyolfen4y ago0 comments

> The “based in Switzerland” thing strikes me as a bit of a black box bit of marketing speak. How much time, energy and money did ProtonMail expend fighting this surreptitious logging mandate? Does “Swiss privacy” actualy mean anything if ProtonMail is happy to hand over your IP address when spooked?

it does not; witness the swiss banking system's capitulation to the US, crypto AG, etc

0 comments

1 comments · 1 top-level

colechristensen4y ago

Swiss banking was doing business in the US on US soil, they didn’t capitulate, they greedily extended beyond swiss borders and got caught helping foreign people evade their taxes with employees outside swiss borders.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse