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2026-10-29 17:59 UTC
hey so like over a year ago when I raised a bunch of bright red flags over Proton’s direction, starting with the horribly insecure LLM features they pushed into Proton Mail and continuing with Yen’s support for Trump, the company doing a bitcoin wallet, their shitty chatbot, the straw poll community survey they did, the fucking obvious dark PR piece defending Yen that people kept linking, all the other weird shit around Proton on here and reddit and lemmy, the unnecessary vulnerabilities around Proton’s payment system that resulted in users getting compromised
https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/
did I not fucking tell you
are any of the little fuckers in my replies telling me I’m exaggerating going to post an apology now or?
are any of the infosec big boys who thought the vulnerabilities I posted about weren’t anything going to re-evaluate?
will any of the privacy cosplayers reflect on my posts and realize that all the things I pointed out about Proton weren’t minor gripes? no?
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let’s pull some motherfucking quotes
> 404 Media spoke to eight current and one former Proton employees and reviewed Slack chats, meeting recordings, and an AI manifesto written by the company’s CTO. Our reporting reveals a culture of fear inside Proton, where many employees are hesitant to even mildly critique Yen’s views or discuss engineering problems. Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threatens their employment at the company.
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> “The CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now,” one of the sources told 404 Media.
> Yen, a former CERN particle physicist, projects a measured approach in public, but internally he acts more like what one employee described as a “petulant child.”
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