I’m talking about privacy, not security. And again, this has nothing to do with their official policies listed on their website, but rather their tendency to market themselves as “a super private e-mail provider built by CERN scientists.”
I think for many use cases (e.g., political activism) most peoples intuitive idea of privacy does not align at all with what ProtonMail actually provides.
> In the end, if you rely on any single company for both your security and privacy, you're playing a loosing game. Not hiding your IP when signing up for something when you're planning to do illegal activities? Maybe time to reconsider your opsec strategy.
Totally agree. But again, this is less about getting the average individual to rethink their op sec strategies, and more or less about ProtonMails proclivity to market themselves as an organization that solves these opsec problems for you.
This article is yet another example.