• Mikufan@ani.social
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    6 months ago

    I’ve had to use the recovery, they need plaintext because they send you a recovery code or a support ticket (depends) nobody knows all their emails.

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      6 months ago

      they need plaintext because they send you a recovery code or a support ticket

      Sure, but we’re talking about architectural choices. It is Proton’s choice to use that system; it is not required for the goal of account recovery.

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        6 months ago

        Well yes but you could just set another Proton account as recovery and not your email which you used to sign up to everything…

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            6 months ago

            Well… I did… Idk

            Well on the other hand you can just not be a terrorist (for that case)

            You can also set a temporary mail if another Proton isn’t working. There are enough ways around such restrictions.

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                6 months ago

                The person is a terrorist by definition and Proton does allow temp addresses simply because they cant enforce that you don’t just set up a SMTP server on your pc and get a temporary mail from that…

                They are privacy focused but you don’t have to use their services for committing treason and plan terrorist actions/actions against a state when you are to dumb to not use your go to email as recovery.

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                    6 months ago

                    I question if you’ve read the story. Its a very clear case that is painted in the story.