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by vizzah 2461 days ago
Good, but your e-mail provider can still see it. And be forced to eavesdropping.

Back in '90s I used a nym e-mail to receive e-mails anonymously and with no traces.

In a few words - e-mails are encrypted with your PGP key and posted to Usenet groups, where you scan all messages and extract only those signed&encrypted with your key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonymous_remailer

Yep, there are 1000 and 1 method of communicating securely. Governments are just using this as an excuse to wiretap popular messaging services for general surveillance.

Unless they'll get away with making everyone dumber, they shall fail.

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> Unless they'll get away with making everyone dumber, they shall fail.

This is not how it works. As long as enough people are not bothered, they will succeed.

Protonmail has(claims) client-side encryption.
And deletes your account for 'fraud' if you log in on an IP someone else used for malicious activity.
Great, so basically you are a criminal for using a VPN to protect your privacy, since criminals also use VPNs :facepalm:
My Twitter account has been suspended for suspicious activity. Someone with whom I disagreed probably tried logging into my account a few times that triggered it, and now I cannot regain access to my account unless I provide my phone number. When you sign up, phone number is optional, but when someone fucks around with you, it becomes mandatory. The fact that the system is designed this way is absurd. This is not limited to Twitter, by the way.