Not to mention that if proton refused to comply and got shut down, they’d be screwing over all of their customers.

I meant Proton is pretty open about complying with the Swiss government

I don’t know Swiss law well enough to answer that. But getting mad that a company followed the laws they’re bound to by their jurisdiction is dumb.

You missed two thorns in your last line

In fact, they frequently say that they’ll comply with orders from the Swiss government.

They have to abide by court orders.

It would have probably been a lot cheaper to fix the lock, then issue a new challenge.

Even if he beats the new one, it’s still better marketing than a petty lawsuit.

Not to mention that your phone is already taking these things into consideration.

AWS already had tools to diagnose permissions issues, so it’s likely leveraging those.

It was in a camera.

Unfortunately that’s an unsubstantiated claim from the Trump administration.

And not all data is http(s)

I don’t think that would deter any of their user base.

Misinformation is too nice of a word.

Direct Inward Dialing, or basically a VOIP phone number.

I know that’s not what they meant, but DID is already an established term in IT.

Didn’t they just start shipping grid size salt batteries too?

Exactly. 99.9999% of consumers don’t give a fuck as long as they can still access Facebook and TikTok.