Let’s not forget that these “technically-correct” but poorly-worded half-truths are what landed them in hot water back when they were forced to log and disclose a user’s IP address for law enforcement back in 2021.
Beating a dead horse, which wasn’t for VPN (VPN under swiss law cannot be compelled to log), but Mail. That is an important difference.
And while Proton Mail does have some situations in which they could be compelled to provide certain metadata (IP logs), when used together with Proton VPN you effectively do not have a traceable IP address and one cannot be compelled.
Of course this solution has a lot of OPSEC considerations and is not the most simple solution in practice.
This is entirely untrue. The new Linux app, fully rewritten, is currently in beta now:
https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-prerelease/
Beating a dead horse, which wasn’t for VPN (VPN under swiss law cannot be compelled to log), but Mail. That is an important difference.
And while Proton Mail does have some situations in which they could be compelled to provide certain metadata (IP logs), when used together with Proton VPN you effectively do not have a traceable IP address and one cannot be compelled.
Of course this solution has a lot of OPSEC considerations and is not the most simple solution in practice.