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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: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:44PM
I realize that it's almost against the law to say this, but anyone fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan after perhaps the first two months, or anywhere else in the middle east, is disqualified from being considered a war hero. The first per-requisite to being a war hero, is to fight in a just war. Don't have that, you're just a really good oppressor.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:11PM
Well. the war hero was John McCain, not Tammy Duckworth. But the war McCain was in (and so was I, but I'm no hero; I never risked my life to save anyone else's. The closest I was to Viet Nam was Thailand, across the bay) was as much a clusterfuck as Iraq was IMO. But I have to disagree about Afghanistan. It may not be the Christian thing to do, but when someone punches you in the nose, you beat the holy hell out of them like I did that stupid bully in 7th grade.
But even if the war is unjust, if you risk your life to save someone else's life, you're still a hero.
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