And regular users sending sensitive personal information i.e. sending my mother my new credit card number from Japan so she can bill stuff to my card.
Heck I might as well send you my credit card number since I can trust YOU right?
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'ProtonMail' Email App for iOS Launches With End-to-End Encryption
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Heck I might as well send you my credit card number since I can trust YOU right?
Yes.
Although, I didn't realize that the free account has a 500MB limit and you can pay for between 5 and 20GB. I will probably limit my usage of the system to family and close friends, letting gmail continue to serve as my primary account.
If you want seamless encryption, yes*.
In my testing, if they don't use the service, you can send unencrypted emails to anybody. Alternatively, you can send them encrypted emails, which appears to send them an alert and link to the ProtonMail site, where they can enter your agreed upon password to decrypt the message.
*I don't know how it plays with other encryption-enabled mail services.
Pretty much. I'm sure legitimate citizens will find uses for it too. But why would we care?
Especially as, once we get done defending Tim Cook's anti-government rant about encryption and privacy, we then say how private social media companies like Facebook and Google do data mining as government fronts.
But where will the teenagers go to impregnate one another if they can't do it in vans?
Good grief. The FBI, almost 50 years ago AND before any technology for us commoners came out, could figure out every last detail of slimeballs like Grace Slick (they stopped her from infiltrating Nixon's party to lace his drink with illegal drugs, she should have been locked up) and John Lennon (hypocrite extraordinaire...) You and I are not special, you're wasting your time. And don't forget, the FBI wanted Apple's involvement to save time and money, since people bleat about government wasting both at every shiny happy opportunity...
There used to be a Mail extension that supported GPG back in the day. Not sure if it's still alive-- I gave up on it because every update to Apple Mail forced a reinstall... I don't understand why this isn't a standard feature of more mail applications.
Not sure how they can. They make the point that they maintain no logs, so the information won't linger-- assuming you trust them on that.
As I understand it, it's mostly this kind of metadata that the NSA was tracking.
And, you know, those of us who might make the occasional remark about President Trump's hands and don't think we should go to the gulag for it.
Not sure how they can. They make the point that they maintain no logs, so the information won't linger-- assuming you trust them on that.
As I understand it, it's mostly this kind of metadata that the NSA was tracking.
And, you know, those of us who might make the occasional remark about President Trump's hands and don't think we should go to the gulag for it.
Yeah, I think that is still around - I think I have it on my MBP but never use it.
Re Protonmail - the app for iOS and Android is currently in Beta and costs $29, which seems a lot to me. Linky here
Re Protonmail - the app for iOS and Android is currently in Beta and costs $29, which seems a lot to me. Linky here
This will be just like PGPmail in the past like back in 1999. If you are sending email to another party that doesn't have proton mail you can encrypt your emails via symmetric encryption which means you're gonna be giving them a password to type in. They receive the email then click on the link which brings them to the proton mail server to read after they can enter in the correct password you encrypted the email with. The cool feature is the auto destroy function. Other than that this won't catch on.
99% of the population just write and send an email. Unless every mail server everyone uses supports encryption it's going to be a hassle. The only reason why you'd want to encrypt anyway is if you send really private info/sensitive info to someone you know and trust - or you are doing shady businesses. Either way proton mail will suffice. I use it for Craigslist transactions.