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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.
Unless this is being used as a pretext to block a service they wanted to block anyway for other reasons.
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.
Can India even block ProtonMail if the users also have ProtonVPN?
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
India is scaring me
this is effectively an endorsement for the rest of the world
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Temporary blocking doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. Perhaps even a longer term one if Swiss federal authorities are going to meddle.
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.
