[john_strinlai]

i can totally understand this piece of news being a "stab".

but, i dont understand the 404 piece. they are a lawfully operating company, they will answer lawful requests. the same will be true of any and all companies you choose to use for your mail.

in this case, only payment data was handed over. if your payment history is of concern, proton accepts cash and bitcoin

(if anything, this should be a point in favor of proton, seeing as how the only data they were able to hand over was payment data, and not email contents)

[stgo]

It's possible that the 404 stab might be a personal one and comes from too high expectations from me and/or misunderstanding about how private our data was with them.

The privacy tech was part of their marketing, I'm quite sure about that. But the fact that they're swiss might also have helped to believe that privacy wouldn't be bargained (vs/ american companies) => I honestly don't remember if it was a claim they had.