posted Tue, 03/12/2019 - 19:40
1122
Can Protonmail still be trusted?
ad
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-company-behind-ProtonMail-has-been-awa...
So, supposed secure/annonymous webmail provider, ProtonMail.com was recently awarded a €2 million grant from the European Commission.
Is that payment for data on its users?
Or is it just a nice thing for the gov't to do?
- Bookmark
- 0
- 0
Alphamale500It does make you think, or me anyway. I was honestly thinking of something like this myself, since there are likely many people who use their services for shady purposes. If you were some government entity or whatever and wanted to eaves drop on those doing that shady business, wouldn't that be a cleaver idea to set up your own VPN or encrypted email service? Could be paranoia, maybe not!
That’s interesting, I’m also using Proton VPN, may consider changing it now
StevebUse Tutanota
x2 excellent email server.
The grant money will towards an new encrypted drive protocol that eventually the Govts in EU will use to help protect them. This comes after the Germany political hacks and Germany even switched to opensource nextcloud encrypted drives with a multi-million contract with developers to help them. This is actually a positive step forward in the move to better technology.
Protonmail employs some really good cryptographers on staff. The problem is they need new protocols. But no one wants to pay for them to be developed and tested. The funds allow them to hire X amount of people dedicated to this. These companies like protonmail and tutanota have put source codes out for inspection by others. Now we can see where an application pulls its source from.
It sounds like they’re being contracted to set up encryption for the gov. Unless I’m misreading?
That's certainly the claim, yes.
Yup. That’s what I got out of it