Ok, so I asked you to give me all the questions you had for #Proton. I collected all of that, and asked all I could I fit in an 1h30 hour long interview with Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton.
He talked features, business model, #Linux support, #privacy, security, and everything in between, and here is the full interview:
I've recently signed up to the privacy-preserving service Proton. All the email, calendar, drive, VPN, and other services seem to hang off the proton.me domain. I wanted to download the Android apps to my phone - without using the Google Play Store. The VPN app is on F-Droid but none of the others are. So, […]
I've recently signed up to the privacy-preserving service Proton. All the email, calendar, drive, VPN, and other services seem to hang off the proton.me domain.
I wanted to download the Android apps to my phone - without using the Google Play Store. The VPN app is on F-Droid but none of the others are. So, because I'm lazy, I Googled "Download Proton Mail".
It looks like a genuine site. But is it? .me is signed by Let's Encrypt, whereas .com is signed by Amazon. There is no link from Proton.me to ProtonApps.com. There's nothing I can find that shows it is genuine.
But, let's assume for the moment, that it is legitimate. What happens when you try to download the Android apps from it?
So there are multiple domains - Proton.me, ProtonApps.com, ProtonMail.com, ProtonVPN.com - and there are at least 2 different GitHub organisations.
How do you tell which ones are legitimate? I signed up and paid on the .me page - so I have high confidence in it.
The official Proton Mastodon account says the ProtonApps.com site is legitimate (and the Mastodon account is verified by the .me site). But you can't expect users to chase through a dozen different pages and enquire on social media just to verify which page is safe.
This is my plea to all developers - simplify your customer-facing infrastructure to make your domains consistent & trustworthy.
It looks like StandardNotes is joining forces with Proton.
"Our intention has always been to build a small, sustainable organization that helps protect your right to keep personal information private and preserve your freedom to think, speak, and act. Joining with Proton—one of the rare organizations that can (and is willing) to take a long-term approach—gives us the best opportunity to achieve this ambition."
#EU#Spain#Catalonia#Cybersecurity#Privacy#Encryption#Wire#Proton: "As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and Proton, which helped the authorities identify a pseudonymous activist, according to court documents obtained by TechCrunch.
Earlier this year, the Spanish police Guardia Civil sent legal requests through Swiss police to Wire and Proton, which are both based in Switzerland. The Guardia Civil requested any identifying information related to accounts on the two companies’ respective platforms. Wire responded providing the email address used to register the Wire account, which was a Protonmail address. Proton responded providing the recovery email for that Protonmail account, which was an iCloud email address, according to the documents.
In the request, which listed “organised crime” and “terrorism” as the nature of the investigation, Spanish police wrote that it wanted to “find out who were the perpetrators of the facts taking place in the street riots in Catalonia in 2019.”"
I'll be interviewing Andy Yen, the CEO of #Proton in early December, and I'd like to ask them the questions YOU have about Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar or VPN, or security and privacy in general. So I made a tiny little form where you can enter your questions, and I'll ask them during the interview, which you'll be able to watch on the Youtube and Peertube channel, of course.
We'll do our best to address as many questions as possible in the time we have!
OC Hey Apple, any chance you wanna maybe... contribute... to WINE?