Privacy

Proton’s official account said the company was “alerted by a CERT that certain accounts were being misused by hackers in violation of Proton’s Terms of Service,”

Proton’s CEO later announced that the accounts were reinstated, following another post by the company that said the company does “stand with journalists,” but that it “cannot see the content of accounts and therefore cannot always know when anti-abuse measures may inadvertently affect legitimate activism.”

Sounds reasonable to me? It's not a good look but it sounds like they quickly re-instated the closed accounts. The article title is misleading.

This does feel like a random lash out after this story, the reports of the CEO earlier this year and the reports that they were going to move out of Switzerland.

Let's just randomly punch down at something the vast majority of our users wouldn't trust already?

I'd understand writing something like this if they were about to launch their own messenger product. But even then, this article doesn't offer anything new.

Both being unsafe seems the most probably state of things.

Still, something unsafe can still be safer than every other option ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That doesn't make WhatsApp safe. Proton having it's own issues does not invalidate what they're sharing about WhatsApp concerns.

Even their CEO did not practice safe sex when he sucked the dick of Trump without a condom.