TheFool

Steinmeier is still your president

Currently working on that too. I mainly grieve over their mail and password management services. Bitwarden would be a solid ProtonPass replacement but I‘m considering hosting Vaultwarden on my tailnet for more independence from cloud storage.

E2E encrypted mail is very annoying because no one else seems to offer a bridge like proton so I‘m considering using a classic provider with a privacy commitment and just archiving locally to keep the bulk of my mails to myself. Mailbox, Tuta and others do offer similar mail experiences though.

Use breezewiki

I used beeper for that because it enables you to choose between hosting the bridge on their server, hosting the bridge on your computer but using their homeserver which makes things way easier or just using the on device bridge in their app with no server (except iMessage because apple immediately patched every attempt of theirs so now you need a Mac to bridge it)

The WhatsApp issue that you have to open the original app every few days is unavoidable sadly.

Yeah, okay, fair point. I guess it depends on the use case. For general communication, you’re absolutely right, but in the article, it said he was a climate activist, and I imagine I‘d rather use a separate anonymous email address to organise and demonstrate than an account linked to my phone number and through that to my identity.

Fair point, and it seems like I was wrong about the phone numbers in France. If you can use an anonymous prepaid phone number, it makes sense to use Signal + TOR. But in many European countries, even though Signal is legal, you have to provide your legal ID to get a phone number, so your Signal account is never anonymous, as opposed to a free Proton Mail address, which you can create without providing any information.

Not generally but since in this case they had to record and hand over the IPs used to access the Proton Mail account, if he had used TOR they couldn’t have handed over anything useful

Proton was legally forced to record IPs for this account (as per the linked article). Theoretically that could happen to Signal just as well if the laws allow it in their jurisdiction. There was nothing in the article about message content or metadata being handed over to authorities.

As far as I know in France you can‘t have an anonymous phone number so technically using TOR and Proton Mail you can achieve a higher level of privacy than with Signal

Votes have to be initiated and apparently no one wants to. Anybody could start collecting signatures and bring it to a vote, but I‘m pretty sure it would get rejected again anyway (pure speculation though)

Absolutely not. It would completely undermine our direct democracy

Neutrality has nothing to do with joining the EU or not. There was a vote 25 years ago and the Swiss people decided against it with a 76.7% majority. That’s all.

Personally I am against it myself because the EU parliamentary system and the Swiss system of direct democracy are just not compatible.