No, most of the email you’ll send and receive will be seen unencrypted by ProtonMail’s servers because that’s just how the email protocol works, which means an

No, most of the email you’ll send and receive will be seen unencrypted by ProtonMail’s servers because that’s just how the email protocol works, which means an intelligence agency like the NSA can still see most if not all of your communication. In other words ProtonMail is not actually end-to-end encrypted which makes it snake oil. It’s interesting that this point has to be explained on HN time and time again, as HN’s audience should understand end to end encryption.