On 11/07/14 22:12, Richard Brooks wrote: > Just saw this: > > https://protonmail.ch/ > > purports to be a secure email service. Did not look at it in > detail. Would be curious about critiques. >
Well it appears that saying SWITZERLAND! and CERN! and PHYSICS! a lot and using terms like "fully", "never", "100%", "zero", "proven" misleadingly loosely, they're convincing people to throw money at them (current Indiegogo campaign is at 384% of the $100K goal). They appear to have noble intentions, but their discussion of the surveillance countermeasures they've allegedly built into the service (mostly - SWITZERLAND!) is disconcertingly naive. I see no evidence of a solution to the well known problems faced by everyone who has tried to take the burden of key management away from end users. protonmail's best use might have been raising the privacy bar for people like my mum, but then again she can't remember ANOTHER *two* complex passwords and change them frequently enough, so - pfft. TL;DR: I would avoid. No real breakthrough/solution here. -A -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
