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https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/ re: @protonprivacy@mastodon.social > In the last few months, Yen set up an email address for employees to contact if they come across anything blocking adoption of AI at Proton, so leadership can “ruthlessly smash everything that stands in the way of AI velocity;” Proton installed software on workers’ computers that track how much AI code the company is generating; and Yen said this is the last year that Proton will hire engineers at all, and instead only hire people to build things with AI. #Proton #protonmail #protonPrivacy #ai #aiSlop #vibecoding #infosec #cybersecurity #security #privacy
  • ThatFuckingIdiot@lemmy.todayEnglish
    91·
    3 days ago

    Cool. So in a year or so we’ll see news about a massive security breach across all their products.

    Guess I now get to start hunting for another secure email, thankfully that’s the only product I used daily.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I ended up going with Tuta personally when I started looking around to degoogle. It’s also not US-based which is a positive.

      • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Looks like they’re developing a drive-like suite as well? Might have to switch …

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, it will be interesting to see how that compares to some alternatives on the market.

          Monolithic companies seem to all enshittify rather quickly these days as they expand.Proton seems to just be the latest.

          1. Starting to go all in and force AI usage.
          2. Back to office mandates.
          3. And most importantly their CEO supporting fascists, berating employees, and dismissing basic security concerns (like pentesting AI code changes before pushing to prod).

          In my process of degoogling, I ended up making a Koofr drive a few months now, and while I haven’t moved everything over yet from Google, I have been using their even more encrypted Vault. Storing stuff that I want to have an additional level of security on. Things like 2FA recovery tokens, bypass passwords, etc. that I don’t need to access basically ever, but I don’t want to risk losing either.

          So that’s an alternative to Drive you might want to take a look at as well. Also EU-based, and GDPR compliant. Apps available for everything, plus official WebDAV and Rclone support.

          • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I’m a believer in “no such thing as ethical consumption” but this latest Proton news seems egregious. I’m at the point where I might as well just start self hosting everything.

  • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    I’m ready to unplug from the internet forever.

  • brackled@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Really wasn’t too hype about their email but I did like their VPN service and no log policy. Any recommendations for similar VPN service?

      • bertlewirth@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’m on Mullvad too. No complaints apart from one of the founders used his own money to contribute to a right wing organisation. Mullvad themselves have said that it doesn’t represent them or their values, and he didn’t use Mullvad funds (well, unless you count that he got that money from his investment in Mullvad) but it’s worth noting.