re: #30 Anymouse 🌹

Leaving out the issues of the Presidential Records Act, Proton Mail is not “specifically designed to circumvent the law.” It is designed to be private (unlike services like Gmail, which scan your text to feed you targeted adverts).

Is is used to circumvent the law? Probably. For a long time police and the GOP have argued that private encryption should not be allowed (presumably so they can circumvent the law, as in required to get a warrant).

Even with my wife’s server, I do not keep E-mail (though I am not a White House staffer either). Anything I am not presently working with I delete.

Mail which goes in or out of Proton Mail to another service is not encrypted - it can be read on the other end. It is only encrypted within the system.

You can set other services to auto-delete messages as well (Snapchat is famous for that).

The auto-delete function is the problem in this particular scenario. If this guy was using it as a private email, it’s a nothingburger beyond the fact that leaving the address and password at a bus stop is a potential personal security breach. But if staffers are using private email so they can avoid the Records Act, that’s a very big deal. I have no problem with people using encrypted email, it’s probably the smarter thing to do. I just want to make sure that they’re not violating yet another law.