Post by @zzt@mas.to · Elektrine

2026-10-29 18:01 UTC

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. > > “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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@zzt@mas.to 2026-10-29 18:04

oh hey here’s how much fucko cares about Reddit > In a Slack channel dedicated to thanking people for their work, Yen jumped in. “Get it fixed,” he wrote, referring to Proton’s Reddit post announcing the feature. “Now Reddit is pissed and we look worse than Tuta,” he added, referring to a Proton competitor. When employees explained to Yen the nuances of the encryption and why that was not immediately possible, Yen wrote, “I find this whole thing stupid. You cannot announce this in this way.” if you ever wondered why proton seems to have an army of shills on reddit, masto, lemmy, and wherever else Yen might be dimly aware of yes they do have shills, read the fucking article anyway good on @Tutanota@mastodon.social for making the pissboy piss himself this isn’t an endorsement, I use Tuta but I don’t trust anybody in the space anymore but also it’s really fucking funny how much tuta is in Yen’s head as he destroys his own company and reputation

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