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If you're able, cancel your sub to Proton, cite Andy as the reason (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 13 hours ago by begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Andy Yen's values are incompatible with Proton's mission. He advocates for poor security practices, supports fascists, and he verbally abuses his subordinates. As such, I can no longer in good conscience continue to financially support a company with such terrible leadership.

Unfortunately for me, my subscription just renewed last month on a multi year plan, but it does give me time to browse for and experiment with alternatives.

If you're able, I encourage you to do the same and cite Andy Yen as the driving factor for your decision. We can't let these tech bro fascists destroy what little semblance of privacy we have left.

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[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

lmao -1000 score

r🤢ddit link to a Yen comment

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1xilgwk/comment/19ru2qt4r4r5u/

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What is the problem with that approach?

[–] warm@kbin.earth 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What? The approach to saying no context and then not giving any context?

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I mean the approach he outlined in his post

Proton today does way more security reviewing than we have done at any time in the past. With the proliferation of AI tools, our code is also under more third party scrutiny than ever before. We see this across the industry, with critical software bugs (like the recent PHP bug) being found on an almost daily basis. However, several extra days of human review is not the correct way to confront this challenge. We still have human review, but now augmented by AI, has become exceptionally good at finding vulnerabilities in code. For some time now, Proton has also been using unaligned models with custom skills to do a thorough review of our code. This approach is better, and also faster.

I.e. AI augmented code review (if I understand that correctly).