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I think either Bazaar or GNOME software center does tell you if an app asks for more permissions, I forgot which one though

So you thought this meant they would break the law? Nobody else expects that. There are more reasonable ways to interpret the messaging

from the start I asked for a company that obstructed court order. Show me where I moved goalposts

you're going to have to explain what you meant by dead slave owner portraits. I assumed you meant dollar bills, but if you want to pay Protonmail using cash you need to mail it over, hence the postal service

it makes it more decentralized, preventing data centers from having a large advantage and mounting 51% attacks

as mentioned in other comments, making burners on Tuta is a pain. You often have to wait 1-2 days before they'll let you use the account, and often the account gets deleted during that period if it was made over Tor. Out of the 5-10 times I tried, I was only able to make 2-3 accounts. I'd rather pay for a reliable method.

And in my mind, paying is a more sustainable path. Protonmail and Tuta are pro-privacy, ultimately these services just want to avoid people creating unlimited spam accounts. Rotating Tor exits is something a bot can do, and so I wouldn't be surprised if Tuta started blocking it entirely. Payment is a barrier that doesn't cost your privacy. Protonmail and Tuta don't accept crypto during account creation, but darknet markets provide a workaround

used by some other person for some personally identifiable thing (which is why the internet at large trusts that account and why you bought it!)

the internet trusts protonmail because protonmail adds barriers to prevent unlimited spam accounts from being created. Those barriers are IP, phone number, and secondary email. Darknet markets simply provide an alternative path: monetary. But monetary is still a barrier, and prevents spam accounts as well. So imo society should still "trust" it. In other words, a monetary barrier achieves sybil resistance without sacrificing privacy, and I'm all in support of that.

"using somebody else's identity" on it's own would not help here. To create a Protonmail account, you would either need a non-VPN IP, or access to a phone number or secondary email. You can't just plug in somebody else's name and address. The seller could try to hack other people's accounts, but in my mind it's much easier for them to create accounts legitimately using their own phone #, or at a coffee shop.

I don't, somebody else might

yes, I believe that Tor and Monero are more private/secure than the postal service, just like I believe that 2048-bit RSA is more secure than a padlock

interesting, I have not seen that before but if it helps, no I don't endorse stealing accounts or buying stolen accounts. Given how easy it is to make a (non-anonymous) Protonmail account I'm inclined to believe that most accounts sold are legitimate, but one should always practice best judgement when browsing the darknet

I think you overestimate the scale. Last I checked there were only like 3-4 sellers. They could easily be making these accounts themselves. If the scale grew larger, people in poorer countries would see it as a way to make a quick buck, and start selling them as well. And if the scale grew to an enormous size, Protonmail would probably just start accepting crypto instead of just letting darknet sellers make all the money.