all of this could be explained bad luck of events. but i start to think there is too many "coincidences".
the last one this 88 in binary is just weird and too suspicious. if this turns out to be true, i don't recommend proton services to anyone. certain point, one cannot be totally neutral or impartial.
some time ago purism with librem 5 made extremely bad pr. but i start to think that proton's comments have been worse.