He clearly didn’t support Trump in general, but he did praise Trump’s pick for the antitrust position.
Proton code for the clients is opensource, so it’s not possible to add backdoors without being discovered (encryption happens in the clients).
Proton business model is inherently disincentivizing them to do so. They are a profitable company with a clear profile that would lose so many customers if they decide to do so.
Proton is incorporated in Switzerland, it’s unclear what the benefit would be to “appease” Trump.
Proton is controlled by a nonprofit. In the board of this nonprofit there are people like Carissa Veliz (author of “Privacy is power”) and Tim Berners Lee. So even if Andy Yen was a full on MAGA, he still wouldn’t have autonomy to decide that. Note that he ceded control himself.
There is absolutely nothing in the history of Proton that suggests they would be open to backdooring their software.
There is a long track record of choices to protect users’ privacy. This also includes yearly substantial donations to nonprofits who work in this space.
If this is not enough, I don’t know what is, but for sure the baseless accusations of a random user shouldn’t be enough as well.
Sci-fi writing in here I see
EDIT: For the downvoters:
If this is not enough, I don’t know what is, but for sure the baseless accusations of a random user shouldn’t be enough as well.
How dare you go against the lemmy hive mind. We need to shit on Proton or you will be punished with negative numbers!
Thanks for making me chuckle.