[tde-users] Re: Persistent KMail issue

said deloptes via tde-users: | dep via tde-users wrote: | > "No, it's likely just a person not being able to differentiate .ch | > (Confoederatio Helvetica) - Switzerland's top level domain, with .cn | > which is China's Top level domain." | | this is absolutely true - ProtonMail is located in Switzerland. Yes. I know. I've been a subscriber since the beta days. I posted the above in response to the person who went on here about ProtonMail being Chinese in some fashion and how it is being blocked, neitherof which is true. (Though some places block ProtonVPN and other VPNs. That is their right, as it is my right to respond by doing business with somebody else.) I'm beginning to see why it can be a bad idea to trim the quotes. I foolishly assumed people answering the question would know what the question was. It was some strange interaction between my local KMail and my local ProtonMail Bridge. Which has been resolved, apparently, though I do not know if they fixed it in Switzerland or if my copying my ~/Mail directory fixed something that had gotten garbled. | Are you using their hosting service as well? What do you mean by hosting service? They're not my internet provider but instead a protection from my internet provider. To the best of my knowledge they do not offer hosting. | I do not think it is bad in itself, but just thinking that you are more | secure makes you less secure. That's not a very usefu thing to say, for a couple of reasons. First, it's like saying that locking the door makes it more likely there will be burglars. Second, one can assume secure communications only if you know the person on the other end is also on ProtonMail. That having been said, ProtonMail itself has never been cracked. | The best way to get secure communication is to do it off-line. This | means 1. use a device for encryption/decryption without internet | connection 2. use a device for transfering messages with internet | connection An interesting answer. I'll keep it in case that's ever a question I have. | Too many people died using same device for all shit in once. | For 99.99% of the people this is absolutely an overkill. It is enough to | use gpg and watch out what you write inside anyway. I'm glad you have found the answer for what you do. If what you're saying is play stupid games, win stupid prizes, you are right. If what you are saying is that people should carefully research the applications they trust to preserve their privacy, you are absolutely right. (If Meta owns it, for instance, you cannot trust it.) If you are saying to assume that practically everyone is an idiot when it comes to security and privacy, you are right. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/