In reply to @martini_man:nerdsin.space
Spanish Health Minister says residents of Spain would have to be vaccinated against Covid-19 every year. https://english.elpais.com/society/2021-07-23/everything-pointing-to-need-for-a-third-covid-19-vaccine-dose-says-spanish-health-minister.html

In reply to @martini_man:nerdsin.space
https://privacy-watchdog.io/truth-about-protonmail/

That's half interesting, there's some half-truths in those two, the investors and some history is interesting, but lots of over-the-top claims makes me doubt everything. And those articles are 2 years old & likely out of date about technical issues, security companies tend to fix security issues shortly after they're discovered. I made some notes to keep track of myself, so… Some highlights:

• Assumes that TOR is broken, and not using a special .onion site will completely reveal your identity. Or maybe doesn't know how the tor browser works, you're still using TOR even for regular non-.onion sites. But it is weird that you can't sign up to Protonmail through their .onion site, and it doesn't seem to demand payment to sign up through tor now, but does want another email or SMS...
• Assumes every website and web app provides zero security from the owner's secretly knowing everything. Well yeah that's true everywhere.
• Thinks just using the EML filetype (described along with mbox as having "'achieved a certain status as de facto standards because most modern email clients and servers can import and export one or both of the formats' including Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook and Eudora") means they're working hand in hand with the CIA - with no other supporting evidence, not even another random blog. Even if it's true that they don't encrypt who messages are to & from, they have to send & receive the messages so they have to know where to send to. Sources an 8 year old article that itself sources now 11 year old documents that talk about now 21 year old NSA programs...
• Thinks having investors tangentially connected means they're completely open to the CIA & NSA
• Thinks everything in Switzerland is completely open to the NSA, because of an MLAT treaty? Others seem to dispute that.
• Assumes that just using Radware for DNS/DDOS Protection means Radware can easily & secretly steal all user's logins & passwords. And "Radware's international office is a few miles away from the headquarters of... The Isreali Mossad" so that's bad I guess?
• Thinks the creators shouldn't keep using their original work emails (probably years or decades old) after getting a new job at a new email company ("they're not using protonmail email addresses, while they're creating it!"), and that's somehow suspicious.
• Repeatedly says raising funding automatically means "selling equity AND CONTROL", while his single sources doesn't mention either, especially not control.