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Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

following a legal complaint filed by New Delhi-based M Moser Design Associates. The local firm alleged that its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.

in January, the New Delhi-based firm called for the regulation or blocking of Proton Mail in India, as the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.

this has nothing to do with encryption services offered by proton. any email provider could fall into this pitfall.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Unless this is being used as a pretext to block a service they wanted to block anyway for other reasons.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't most other providers just give up the senders' details immediately?

(Edit: less absolute)

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i haven't seen any data to that effect.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I rather thought that was one of the main selling points of the Proton services.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Can India even block ProtonMail if the users also have ProtonVPN?

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

could they theoretically just block protonvpns ip range at an isp level?

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If you start blocking VPNs you are cutting off your country from most telework/outsourcing because corporations need VPNs to their branch offices.

This is an acceptable trade off for Russia, probably not for India.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

you dont block off all vpns, the ips proton vpn uses. vpns in china work the same way.. not all vpns work in china, but they do exist

[–] Bldck@beehaw.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

A state level block on protonvpn would be at the IP block level based on known, published exit nodes.

Corporate VPNs are point to point and would not be impacted

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think protonmail can work with tor

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

The article is not very clear, but my interpretation is that this is about the e-mails sent from Proton Mail, not users being able to access the Proton Mail web site.

A VPN won't help you if the server for the recipient of the e-mail drops the e-mail.

So, basically imagine that all Internet service providers in India have to block any e-mail from @proton.me and not deliver them. I think that's the idea.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago

India is scaring me

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

this is effectively an endorsement for the rest of the world

[–] XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly this is the text book definition of: "We do not understand anything about the technology so just ban it all together" They are completely missing the point that its a GDPR compliant privacy focused platform, Of course people are going to abuse that.

But to enact such a draconian measure is foolish imho.