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Honestly this is the text book definition of: “We do not understand anything about the technology so just ban it all together” They are completely missing the point that its a GDPR compliant privacy focused platform, Of course people are going to abuse that.
But to enact such a draconian measure is foolish imho.
following a legal complaint filed by New Delhi-based M Moser Design Associates. The local firm alleged that its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.
in January, the New Delhi-based firm called for the regulation or blocking of Proton Mail in India, as the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.
this has nothing to do with encryption services offered by proton. any email provider could fall into this pitfall.
Wouldn’t most other providers just give up the senders’ details immediately?
(Edit: less absolute)
i haven’t seen any data to that effect.
I rather thought that was one of the main selling points of the Proton services.
Unless this is being used as a pretext to block a service they wanted to block anyway for other reasons.
Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools. The Indian government’s IT ministry reportedly notified internet providers to block Proton Mail at the request of law enforcement. However, the Swiss federal authorities intervened to prevent the blocking of Proton Mail taking effect.
Oh.
Temporary blocking doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. Perhaps even a longer term one if Swiss federal authorities are going to meddle.
this is effectively an endorsement for the rest of the world
India is scaring me
its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.
the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.
Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools.
Honestly, pretty glowing review of Proton Mail
Bomb threats to local schools were also being sent via Proton.
If they aren’t going to help deal with that then I can understand why turning them off and figuring out is the next best step.
Other services likely engage with local authorities when illegal activity is pursued in their platform.
Can India even block ProtonMail if the users also have ProtonVPN?
The article is not very clear, but my interpretation is that this is about the e-mails sent from Proton Mail, not users being able to access the Proton Mail web site.
A VPN won’t help you if the server for the recipient of the e-mail drops the e-mail.
So, basically imagine that all Internet service providers in India have to block any e-mail from @proton.me and not deliver them. I think that’s the idea.
could they theoretically just block protonvpns ip range at an isp level?
If you start blocking VPNs you are cutting off your country from most telework/outsourcing because corporations need VPNs to their branch offices.
This is an acceptable trade off for Russia, probably not for India.
you dont block off all vpns, the ips proton vpn uses. vpns in china work the same way… not all vpns work in china, but they do exist
A state level block on protonvpn would be at the IP block level based on known, published exit nodes.
Corporate VPNs are point to point and would not be impacted
I think protonmail can work with tor
