Andy Yen’s values are incompatible with Proton’s mission. He advocates for poor security practices, supports fascists, and he verbally abuses his subordinates. As such, I can no longer in good conscience continue to financially support a company with such terrible leadership.

Unfortunately for me, my subscription just renewed last month on a multi year plan, but it does give me time to browse for and experiment with alternatives.

If you’re able, I encourage you to do the same and cite Andy Yen as the driving factor for your decision. We can’t let these tech bro fascists destroy what little semblance of privacy we have left.

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I mean the approach he outlined in his post

    Proton today does way more security reviewing than we have done at any time in the past. With the proliferation of AI tools, our code is also under more third party scrutiny than ever before. We see this across the industry, with critical software bugs (like the recent PHP bug) being found on an almost daily basis. However, several extra days of human review is not the correct way to confront this challenge. We still have human review, but now augmented by AI, has become exceptionally good at finding vulnerabilities in code. For some time now, Proton has also been using unaligned models with custom skills to do a thorough review of our code. This approach is better, and also faster.

    I.e. AI augmented code review (if I understand that correctly).

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 days ago

      If you read the manifesto they’re accelerating towards “zero human written code”. I.e. no augment; the LLM performs it’s own code review. Humans don’t even look at the code anymore. Programmers all get fired; only employees left are project managers

      Yes, really