I don’t know about you guys, but I find it insane that Proton, a company that prides itself on privacy and digital freedom, just suspends email accounts of cybersecurity journalists.
Firstly I want to point out that suspending, disabling or deleting accounts has nothing to do with privacy or security.
Secondly we should also acknowledge that Proton is a legal company in the jurisdiction of the Swiss government. They are bound to the law of swiss and need to obey them.
Proton claimed that their account “has been disabled as a result of a direct connection to an account that was taken down due to violations of our terms and conditions while being used in a malicious manner.“ But Proton also says that they cannot see the content of an account (generally a good thing) and can not always determine whether there were ToS violations or just a byproduct of legitimate journalism.
They can. If the receiver (South Korean) just screenshotted the e-mail and sent it to proton.