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No it's NOT BS. It also has nothing to do with trusting Proton. I specifically stated what data Proton is legally required to produce whenn presented with a warrant and the basic contact info I stated in the mailbox are not encrypted. Your on linked proton document clearly states this. Second paragraph first link about their new roller out encrypted contacts manager back in 2017 "The name and address fields are not encrypted". It has nothing to do with trust. Itcwas a FYI exactly as I stated it was.
So since you have stated on this subject I am full of BS and insinuating I do not know the proper way to keep my contacts email address and names in the names fields inside the proton mailbox encrypted please grace me with your awesome knowledge of how to do that. Please do not share something stupidly obvious like do not fill in the email address or name fields as only a moron would not think of that. But show me how to use those fields while having them not be accessable to proton staff which will be FORCED by law to produce them to LE with a lawful warrant, which was the specific scenario my post was about. Please point out one thing I stated about Proton mail in my original post above that is incorrect. Further show me where I said anything about not trusting Proton outside of what they are required by law to do.
The entire point of my post was to make many of the average joes that may not dig deep into the tech info by proton and just assume everything in the mailbox is under the same encryption. Proton clearly is giving that general impression with their marketing with names like Encrypted Contacts Manager and fully encrypted email box that someone could easily assume it's all encrypted with only their own access possible to all of it. Unless you bother to read you sure would think your encrypted contact manager would actually encrypt your contacts address and name duh!?! We are talking to laymen not people that understands how email systems like this work and why the contacts and their names might need to not be encrypted from the proton system.
Hence my point if you are really needing to be anonymous you need to be very careful with your contacts not only what you put in contacts in mailbox manager but to whom you send emails to from those accounts. Association is a main avenue used to deanonymize someone by LE or really an investigator with enough access.