Even when I use to use protonmail, we always PGP encrypted the text even if there really wasn't anything incriminating either. Always assume everything is insecure, it's really the only way to protect yourself.
PGP has been audited to death by security researchers (mostly people use the open source GPG, IIRC), and the crypto primitives used nowadays are not the original ones anyways. Beyond that, it's also used for government communications and so a backdoor would be a huge security risk for them.
Even when I use to use protonmail, we always PGP encrypted the text even if there really wasn't anything incriminating either. Always assume everything is insecure, it's really the only way to protect yourself.
Pgp seems pretty likely to have been a government plant from the start
PGP has been audited to death by security researchers (mostly people use the open source GPG, IIRC), and the crypto primitives used nowadays are not the original ones anyways. Beyond that, it's also used for government communications and so a backdoor would be a huge security risk for them.
? I'd love to read more. I haven't been following PGP stuff for years now but I'd still be interested
Feds force programmers to give them secret access all the time, seems like a pretty good candidate
If PGP was a government op then why did the government investigate Phil Zimmermann for creating the software?
To force a back door out of him?
Then you're saying it wasn't a government plant from the start, but was captured.
Signal too, they forced lavabit to close apparently