Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    7 months ago

    I wonder what the authorities could use the recovery email for? Did they gain access to the Protonmail through the recovery email?

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      7 months ago

      It’s in the article ffs. The recovery email was managed by Apple, so they made a request to Apple and obtained the users real identitiy. Once they arrest the user they can gain access to all the users accounts — unless the user had specifically guarded themselves against that possibility.

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      7 months ago

      Recovery email was tied to Apple, so they asked Apple to private the data they needed. No email content was shared at any point from Proton.

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      7 months ago

      If they could get into the recovery email, yeah, they could get into his Proton account. Also useful just for confirming the ID of the person in question.