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Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/08/protonmail-fbi-search-led-to-a-suspect-threatening-a-2020-election-official/?sh=48791539235c

• Claire Woodall-Vogg, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, was harassed and threatened after an innocuous email exchange with an election consultant was published by conservative news outlets.
• One of the harassers used ProtonMail, an encrypted email service, to send Woodall-Vogg a threatening email.
• The FBI acquired data from Proton Technologies, the owner of ProtonMail, to help them identify the anonymous emailer.
• The FBI was able to find the suspect’s identity and conduct a sweep across their internet accounts, but they were not charged with any crimes.
• Woodall-Vogg said that the harassment has not continued recently.
• ProtonMail said that they employ several teams to handle instances of abuse on their platform and that they only provide metadata to law enforcement agencies.
• ProtonMail has received 6,995 orders for data in 2022, of which it contested 1,038.

They said in the past that to retain anonymity, users should use Tor to access the service.

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Also beware that for any web/app client that auto-retrieves the image links in a post/comment/message, the other person can put a tracker that can retrieve your IP address, and possibly your browser/other info as well. VPN/Tor would prevent this.

It’s like your email client not retrieving the images automatically to prevent the spammers to get any info about your interactions with the spam emails.

It seems that the IPs are not just logged at the web server level, i.e. it goes up to the Lemmy server too. Do you know if both the admins and the mods have access to the users’ IP addresses?

2FAS are on both Android and iOS. Also has a browser extension that may make entering the 2FA on the desktop more pleasant. Free. Open-sourced.