• blank_sl8@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Even if their were, proton company would have been legally required to trace their connection through proton VPN. Using tor would have been the better move.

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      3 years ago

      Would they? According to their recent blogpost about the controversy:

      1. Under current Swiss law, email and VPN are treated differently, and ProtonVPN cannot be compelled to log user data.

      …just pasting their claims. If this is true, using a Swiss based, no-logging VPN would be enough to avoid your IP being revealed