For some reason I have it in the back of my mind that they were at one point accused of being a honeypot for US intelligence because of their association with MIT. Probably complete BS, but maybe not. Are they as open source as they claim to be? Looks like they’re on github. F-Droid seems to think they have some Google libraries or whatever that they use.

ProtonMail users, how do you like/dislike it?

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 months ago

    There’s a large difference between surrendering massive amounts of highly critical metadata aswell as some data* to a known abuser vs. an entity that prides itself in not abusing your data and which even takes specific technological measures to make it as hard for them as possible (zero access encryption at rest, automatic key discovery).

    (* Partial social graph, interaction timestamps, political interests, health, hobby interests and much of that usually even in plain text data form when receiving email; stored in in plain text forever.)

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      1·
      6 months ago

      known abuser vs. an entity that prides itself in not abusing your data

      Right, “don’t be evil” 🙄. Corporations are corporations.

      zero access encryption at rest, automatic key discovery

      Also called “encryption”. Just so we’re on the same page:

      • 1991: initial release of PGP
      • 2016: initial proposal and implementation of WKD

      Enigmail for Thunderbird supports both since 2018. The mail service, be it ProtonMail, GMail, Outlook, etc., is irrelevant regarding security or privacy.