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readyIgnite 1 point ago +1 / -0

Protonmail would be off the record accounts.

Patriot Act brought with it tech industry shakedown for some form of proof of individual for who's using accounts. A phone number. Billing. Something traceable to an identity and easily paired across wider accounts on other platforms. Advertisers (scumbag industry) wanted this. Lazy law enforcement wanted this. Oligarchs wanted this.

Protonmail is useful because it deviates from this norm. You can pop over, spin up a functional email in a few clicks like the old days, and you're off and running.

The email nails are too on the nose. That smells. Too easy for ARG intel drop games to seed false rabbit holes. Bad actor similar to 'Moby friends' could plant a tip in Lin's ear. Lin could be sitting on Hunters laptop snipping interesting content of lazy 'Moby friends' planting bad tips in Hunters ears.

For reference -- remember when 'Moby' had special intel friends fear-porn seeding Russia gate? That's the industry. Everyone with reach. Those phone calls got pumped to the insane entertainment figures and they pump their followers with details. Wonder why the celebrities seem insane? Imagine what privileged info they're fed 'because we like you, you're on the inside'. Their ego's eat it up. And their art degree means they lack hard science background to sniff bullshit.

So recall 2015. DNC links were cool because they could be validated as unaltered against convenient services. Math is a wonderful thing.

As submitted I can't see a hook to validate emails as unaltered. I don't think that's possible with protonmail which for its convenience is useful, but also leads us to a less useful territory where how do we validate these are real.

Covington Kids. Entertain and stick a pin in a story. Wait for fog of war to clear and verify.

Information war is new to us. You're the hunter. In front of you is a field full of rabbit holes. Wait patiently for your prey and watch for which hole is moves for to go for the kill.