Submitted 2 hours ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to technology@beehaw.org
I heard that they require plaintext data to work. What are the other factors to this?
There is no real technical reason. They could be. It’s just a matter of encryption while in transit and no logs. Proton does it.
The real reason they aren’t, is that there’s not much incentive to make them private. The data is somewhat valuable, so hold on to it.
Proton allegedly does it.
It’s all just advertising, until you get the hard evidence.
Most modern legal systems today presume innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around.
Proton is structured entirely unlike any other tech company. It would entirely against their own self interests to lie about their privacy claims. Their entire reputation is built on it.
"The cloud" is just somebody else's computer.
CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2 hours ago
Nearly all are run by companies making money by recording as much of your data as possible.
A commercial cloud app could be entirely private but then the company would not be able to take your data.