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If there’s something I’ve learnt of irc is that you don’t taunt those who can bring your connection down. Maybe this will teach these kids from ProtonMail a les

by rablo 8y ago

If there’s something I’ve learnt of irc is that you don’t taunt those who can bring your connection down. Maybe this will teach these kids from ProtonMail a lesson.

foobarbazetc 8y ago
Lol, he called them clowns once. Must’ve really hurt their feelings...
z_open 8y ago
> kids Yeah, all those CERN researcher kids at ProtonMail.
- deleted 8y ago
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- ryanlol 8y ago
  One of the PIA co-founders made a pretty convincing case that protonmail is probably not ran by a bunch of CERN researchers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
  - sm64 8y ago
    The argument is that ProtonVPN is run as a joint venture between Protonmail and the people who run NordVPN. It states nothing about Protonmail.
    - protonmail 8y ago
      This is also not true. ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are not related to NordVPN in any way. The only possible "connection" if you can call it that, is that we might use some of the same server providers (Leaseweb, Amazon, OVH, etc).
  - protonmail 8y ago
    This is completely false by the way. ProtonVPN is created by the ProtonMail team, which has many CERN scientists on staff. This is public record and can be verified by simply looking at the scientific papers they have published: ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen (former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=Andy+Yen&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=earliestdate&so=d http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=Andy+Yen&of=hb&action_s... ProtonMail CTO Bart Butler (also former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=bart+butler&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=earliestdate&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=bart+butler&of=hb... TED Talk about ProtonMail given by ProtonMail CEO: https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_private_think_again https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_privat... So the evidence that ProtonMail is run by former CERN researchers is actually quite overwhelming.

by rablo 8y ago

If there’s something I’ve learnt of irc is that you don’t taunt those who can bring your connection down. Maybe this will teach these kids from ProtonMail a lesson.

foobarbazetc 8y ago

Lol, he called them clowns once. Must’ve really hurt their feelings...

z_open 8y ago

> kids Yeah, all those CERN researcher kids at ProtonMail.

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ryanlol 8y ago
One of the PIA co-founders made a pretty convincing case that protonmail is probably not ran by a bunch of CERN researchers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
- sm64 8y ago
  The argument is that ProtonVPN is run as a joint venture between Protonmail and the people who run NordVPN. It states nothing about Protonmail.
  - protonmail 8y ago
    This is also not true. ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are not related to NordVPN in any way. The only possible "connection" if you can call it that, is that we might use some of the same server providers (Leaseweb, Amazon, OVH, etc).
- protonmail 8y ago
  This is completely false by the way. ProtonVPN is created by the ProtonMail team, which has many CERN scientists on staff. This is public record and can be verified by simply looking at the scientific papers they have published: ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen (former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=Andy+Yen&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=earliestdate&so=d http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=Andy+Yen&of=hb&action_s... ProtonMail CTO Bart Butler (also former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=bart+butler&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=earliestdate&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=bart+butler&of=hb... TED Talk about ProtonMail given by ProtonMail CEO: https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_private_think_again https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_privat... So the evidence that ProtonMail is run by former CERN researchers is actually quite overwhelming.