In Russia now. Just successfully logged into my protonmail account over VPN. My guess is that if you're a protonmail user in Russia, you're knowledgeable enough to use a VPN.
We implemented some technical tweaks yesterday so that Russian users will no longer have any issues. Communications with Russian mail servers are also back up.
As the article itself states, problem is not with the frontend, but they block incoming e-mail to protonmail servers. Which is actually clever in a way, and smarter than just blocking the front-end.
(And it shows another negative side of federated systems, like E-mail.)
> (And it shows another negative side of federated systems, like E-mail.)
The obvious point of comparison would be with a centralised system, but I can't see any possible way that would be better than federated in a situation like this.
It seems that secret blocking now only affects MTS and RT. There are alternative outbound channels in russia, for instance TTK, so protonmail may be available for somebody.
