Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain
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But what do you do if that field is needed? A throwaway address won't work as it's easy to recreate. Buy your own domain and run a server?

I put the Simplelogin email alias as my backup mail. Which forwards mail to my proton, so I guess it isn't really a backup. Even more so if you realize I need to sign into simplelogin with my protonmail account and protonmail owns Simplelogin.

I just have no backup email at all. If I manage to lose my password manager file and forget my password, then I'm just fucking stupid anyway.

I don't believe you need that field with Proton, correct me if I'm wrong. If you do need that field with an email provider, and you need complete opsec, use a different provider.

It wasn't a requirement when I signed up several years ago, and to my knowledge, it's still not required now. Just as long as you keep your email and password in something like a password manager and don't fuck it up, you're fine.

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No, domain names are tied to a person and, even if that person register the domain with fake person details, there will be a digital payment associated with the purchase.

Some registrars accept crypto though.

Which also isn't private. In fact, it's the opposite of private since it's a public blockchain.

Yes, I am aware. But nonetheless it is far easier to use anonymously/pseudonymously than "traditional" payment. Like, exchanging BTC/LTC from Monero, and buying said Monero via a non-kyc method as well. And whatever protections you want to layer, depending on how much effort you think "they" would spend on you.

Proton doesn't require recovery. But if you want recovery without email addresses, there're multiple different ways from recovery phases to recovery phone number to even an encrypted recovery file you download onto a local device.

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