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Thanks for these thoughts. Super insightful and appreciated

Author here. It’s ironic because this post was clearly geared towards non-hackers. But now that we’re here.. the other analogy I considered presenting was:

harness = chassis, model = engine, fuel = tokens, agent = car

I’m curious what y’all might think and whether that analogy carries more explanatory power

ni10con I've sold out

Colin from Earendil here. Will be up to us to prove whether we can become a Company Tolkien would be proud of.

ni10con Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure

I don’t think it ever says wholly owned. My understanding is that the three founders have donated their shares to the Foundation, but they didn’t own 100% of the company. Likely >50% but not 100%

ni10con Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

Feels to me after reading the article they earnestly try to do their best to offer privacy enhancing alternatives and push back often. What percent of these requests do Meta, Google or Microsoft fight? Ratios like that matter

Proton is extremely transparent and said:

If you are breaking Swiss law, ProtonMail can be legally compelled to log your IP address as part of a Swiss criminal investigation. This obligation however does not extend to ProtonVPN (see VPN privacy policy here). Additional details can be found in our transparency report.

ni10con [dead]

The missing web-scale API for identity and access control

I nod in fierce agreement. True words