luck? I have a $5* wrench.

* (Actually a $7 wrench. Inflation is murder around here.)

But that can be said of any of the other such called factors:

A yubikey can be stolen

A fingerprint can be scanned and distributed

So its not really an argument against passwords (or passkeys, or passwordless, or whatever marketing want to call them these days).

Isn’t the idea that not everyone has access to your biometrics?

There’s honestly no need to make computers ask people for piss scans:

something you know

A password

something you have

Access to the password

something you are

The person who knows the password

Oh, that makes more sense!

, terrorism and treason being such cases.

but “muh terrorism” is such a wildcard that it can be (and is) used to excuse anything, so that’s pretty much the same as saying that Proton does not offer any guarantee at all.

You don’t have to be a registered client of a corporation to be harmed by the corporation.

They could host themselves in a different place with better privacy laws. I’ve always wondered why, for example, don’t privacy services establish themselves in international waters or in micronations such as Sealand.

Complete tangent but what is two-party consent even for? I can imagine it gets in the way of getting a lot of evidence in cases of domestic abuse or organized crime.

Caller: [threatens me for 45 seconds] Me: “Could you call me again and repeat all that, for the recording?” Caller: [hangs]

Wouldn’t need to take their money if donations were to get high enough

You can’t even donate to Firefox directly. Donation money goes to the corp., which means it goes to CEO pay raises.