• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Too bad private email access is essentially dead. Any service not requiring another email or phone number to sign up gets quickly shut down. A casualty in the war on whistleblowers.

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      2 days ago

      email is never private, if its that sensitive it just shouldn’t go on the internet

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        2 days ago

        Exactly; email is digital post cards and always has been.

        Of course, that means I can encrypt a message and use someone else’s email account to send it :)

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      2 days ago

      You can sign up for Proton mail without providing email or phone number, as far as I recall.

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        2 days ago

        Yes, tho it days it dosent store it, ill leave it up to you what you do whit that.

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          They do store it and have provided it to authorities in the past. In their defense, modern laws require you to hand over any data you have or get shut down. But they already knew that, yet choose to ask for it anyways knowing that they have to give it away if asked to.

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            2 days ago

            i guess corpos gonna corpo folks… even the “good” ones

            i did not realize you needed anything to create rando emails. i know google started that shit 5 years ago tho

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            2 days ago

            As far as I understand it, this is only recovery emails and I think it explicitly has some sort of warning about this when setting it. This is different than the email prompt on sign up.

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              I wouldn’t trust them not to store the initial one as well tbh. Nothing technically stops that and it’s in their interests.

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              2 days ago

              I didn’t even know it asked for an email for sign up. I just remember the recovery email.