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ProtonMail suggests fear of the Donald prompting lockdown
"ProtonMail follows the Swiss policy of neutrality. We do not take any position for or against Trump," the Swiss company's CEO stated on Monday, before revealing that new user sign-ups immediately doubled following Trump's election victory.
ProtonMail has published figures showing that as soon as the election results rolled in, the public began to seek out privacy-focused services such as its own.
CEO Andy Yen said that, in communicating with these new users, the company found people apprehensive about the decisions that President Trump might take and what they would mean considering the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.
"Given Trump's campaign rhetoric against journalists, political enemies, immigrants, and Muslims, there is concern that Trump could use the new tools at his disposal to target certain groups," Yen said. "As the NSA currently operates completely out of the public eye with very little legal oversight, all of this could be done in secret."
ProtonMail was launched back in May 2014 by scientists who had met at CERN and MIT. In response to the Snowden revelations regarding collusion between the NSA and other email providers such as Google, they created a government-resistant, end-to-end encrypted email service.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/14/protonmail_subs_double_after_trump_victory/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by opinionated_science on Tuesday November 15 2016, @10:48AM
this election convince me (!) that both political parties are simply businesses. They don't care about anything other than power, and the money that comes with it.
This is probably why most of the population feels disenfranchised - but I am no longer surprised by the corruption and lies.
I'm not surprised by Trump either - the media orgy to coronate Hilary was simply obvious.
But both parties suffer from dogma delusion, so we can expect more of the same...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:27PM
I've developed a theory I've dubbed "Taste the Rainbow" to explain it. One of the strongest memes from the election was, "OMG we have to elect our first woman president! Wouldn't that be awesome and historic to do that right after electing the first black president?!" That suggested to me their gameplan was to pick the most evil person they could for the job, but make sure that they had some extrinsic quality from the rainbow of humanity. Thus, after electing a woman president it would become time to "Elect the first Asian president!" and then "The First Gay President!" and then "The First Trans President" and so on. Life for Americans would plummet across every index but the "Taste the Rainbow" would prove how much progress we were making.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:46PM
Or basically, a diversity hire scenario applied to POTUS.
Its a good distractor issue if the candidate is a psychopath or sociopath. Nobody would take a mafia boss or Al Capone or "insert famous white male criminal here" seriously as a candidate, but if the candidate is the first XYZ, then just pound the table with propaganda about it being the first XYZ.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Tuesday November 15 2016, @02:30PM
Can a convicted criminal serve as president? Will the next great civil rights movement be the repatriation of those who have already been punished?
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday November 15 2016, @03:32PM
After that the next great progressive goal will be to use cloning technologies so we can have election candidates being "Stalin-II" vs "Literally Hitler"
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday November 15 2016, @03:33PM
We already had a gay president. His homosexuality had nothing to do with it, but most historians credit him with starting the Civil War and say he was history's worst American president... so far. [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:30PM
Excellent! Now if we could just get more people to pick the red pill instead of the blue one...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.