[liberationtech] Allegedly secure email service

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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