Agree, the capabilities aren’t new, this level of mass surveillance has been possible for close to a decade.
Daenerys Targaryan syndrome: evil actions against evil people may feel like an act of good, but you are still just cheering for villainy
Ehhhh. The only novelty is their target – law abiding US residents – and their newfound brashness. They’ve been covertly surveiling like this for decades, and acting on it abroad for just as long
Imo this incident has been overblown - here’s a write up on Andy Yen that I stand behind
There’s already a whole PG thread detailing this incident, I wont rehash here, but framing Proton as willingly subservient to the surveillance state is a mischaracterization of the prevailing ideas in there
Also - the topics discussed in this video are verifiable, it doesn’t really matter that Proton published it
I love this video. It ties the broad range of normal consumer activities to documented & ongoing mass surveillance/targeted government efforts, & explains the threats in layman terms. I will probably send this to the next person who tries to frame my OPSEC practices as ‘extreme’