I haven't heard this particular rumor, not like they have In-Q-Tel connections a la Wickr, but they do take funding from the Open Technology Fund [0] which some of the more righteously paranoid take issue with, being US State Department and all. Same parent as Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America [1].
The most important factor with email, is that your inbox is encrypted at rest at all times... and cannot be bruteforced.
The chances of your email messages being 'man in the middled' are almost non-existent. Its a micro-percent of live investigations that does this.
The police RELY ON finding messages in either your inbox or the recipients. It doesnt matter if they are encrypted or not in reality. Of course they'd like to read them and if they are this deep into you. Its likely they still will (probably from the recipients lesser password hygiene than yours).
Almost no evidence is every 'plucked' out of the air and read. It just doesnt work that way.
However, software like Delta is better than nothing esp for normies. Its just limited in use for people who really need ways to frustrate LE.
Source: Ive been under NCA and FBI investigation before. Protonmail with the two password method stopped them every time. Memorise the 2nd password and password manager the first.
> Ive been under NCA and FBI investigation before. Protonmail with the two password method stopped them every time. Memorise the 2nd password and password manager the first.
Unless you exclusively use proton-bridge and disabled auto-update, then proton controls all endpoints in which your passwords live.
So what is preventing the FBI from forcing Proton to serve a special UI just to you that will be used to exfiltrate your second password?
ive been through all this with the law. no one ever got jailed for not handing over encryption keys unless they were a definitive criminal and theres strong evidence there is criminal data on the device.
they tried this with me (NCA) but the judge wouldnt sign off as they had nothning on me or my device. this did however REALLY want to access it! fuck them. pricks
Except that doesnt happen. NCA wanted DESPERATELY to access mine. They couldnt do it. No Judge would sign off with evidence their was likely to be something on my phone.
Ah yes, the “we have all the power but pinky promise to only use it on the bad guys” playbook. I have complete confidence and trust in that promise. /s
the fact some people may need it and dont reboot isn't relevant. The option is there.