Protonmail admits it's bullshit
This is an article to go with the new Podcast
Protonmail is Propaganda
This is an article to go with our new podcast on this subject.
Enters as Plain Text
It enters as PLAIN TEXT unencrypted. Then they claim to encrypt it. As per own their blog:
Quote:
"The email is encrypted in transit using TLS. It is THEN UNENCRYPTED and re-encrypted (by us) for storage on our servers using zero-access encryption. Once zero-access encryption has been applied, no-one except you can access emails stored on our servers (including us). It is NOT end-to-end encrypted, however, and might be accessible to the sender’s email service"
Source:
https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-encryption-explained
(Please note, I only changed the CAPS)
Scanning
Second, they do scan it for spam and phising. They repeat this with:
"Emails that come from third party email providers obviously CANNOT be delivered with end-to-end encryption, but upon reaching our mail servers, we will encrypt them with the recipient’s public key before saving the messages(new window). All this is done in memory so that by the time anything is permanently stored to disk, the email is already un-readable to us. This gives us a very limited window to perform spam filtering on incoming messages."
Source:
https://proton.me/blog/encrypted-email-spam-filtering
Then they further elaborate,
"Secondly, the message is passed through our customized Bayesian filters which marks suspicious messages as spam.
Next, we generate checksums of incoming messages and check them against a database of known spam messages. If there is a match, we mark the message as spam. The checksums are done in such a way that it is also effective against mutating spam emails."
Not Logical
So they claim to have it unencrypted, then have a “limited time” to stop spam, but then also claim to encrypt it, and then after compare the hash to spam hash. If their own claims were true, then why do they only have a limited time?
Hand over Thousands
Third, they hand over huge amounts of data. If it’s encrypted, then what do they have to hand over?
Transparency Report
From their own transparency report: https://proton.me/legal/transparency
2023
Number of legal orders: 6,378
Contested orders: 407
Orders complied with: 5,971
2022
Number of legal orders: 6,995
Contested orders: 1,038
Orders complied with: 5,957"
They Don’t Fight
They don’t even fight the court cases! The fact there are so few public arrests off proton, shows that the cases they didn’t even fight had almost no evidence.
Podcast
As Shadow Rebel goes over in the new podcast, another huge issue with Proton is that the private key is going in their web app!
Episode on Website:
https://podcast.simplifiedprivacy.com/proton/index.html
Podcast App RSS:
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