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ProtonMail v3.16
- techntoke 7y agoWhat is this? Since when did cloud hosted solutions announce version number changes? Is ProtonMail suddenly available as an open source self-hosted platform?
- amelius 7y ago> Since when did cloud hosted solutions announce version number changes? It would be great if cloud solutions actually allowed customers to upgrade to new versions when it suits them, not when it suits the provider. And with security fixes properly backported.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoSome providers do this for specific APIs though I may be thinking of SaaS and not the general cloud. I agree though. Although I think Azure Functions lets you pick the version as well iirc.
- TheChaplain 7y agoThe goal is likely to get peoples attention, in particular to new features and changes in their platform.
- ravenstine 7y agohttps://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient (I don't think they have an open source version of their server, but the web client is OSS and versioned)
- lruor 7y agoDoes this version still send my personal data to the Swiss government?
- mieseratte 7y agoWhat makes you think they do this?
- Kiro 7y agohttps://steigerlegal.ch/2019/05/23/protonmail-real-time-surveillance/ https://steigerlegal.ch/2019/05/23/protonmail-real-time-surv...
- ShorsHammer 7y agoI love how there's topics on HN which are basically pointless to try and dispute the nonsense because ever more commentators are going to continue doing it. The fact that comment sections fill up with this stuff instantly and there's so many saying it's all a scam says something in itself. Along with the routine DDOS'ing they get every few months it gives me a suspicion of which way to lean in the debate.
- lruor 7y agohttps://steigerlegal.ch/2019/05/23/protonmail-real-time-surveillance/ https://steigerlegal.ch/2019/05/23/protonmail-real-time-surv...
- ShorsHammer 7y agoAm I missing something here lruor? Linking the same thing above by another that you must have seen to make this comment. I'm not going to bother repudiating the claims made there, a quick search will find you plenty of comments that align with my opinion. Can we get a captcha on my replies :)
- lruor 7y agohttps://steigerlegal.ch/2019/05/23/protonmail-real-time-surveillance/ https://steigerlegal.ch/2019/05/23/protonmail-real-time-surv...
- leetbulb 7y agoI'm a happy ProtonMail user. I've never had an issue with the system and the web app is very pleasant to use. However, I wonder when (if at all) they plan on encrypting more metadata...? Any of you users actually look at the network log of ProtonMail web app? Almost all effort goes in to encrypting just the body of the emails, while just about everything else is seemingly stored in plaintext (headers, subjects, senders, recipients, etc etc)
- supakeen 7y agoThis is mostly because email servers need to look at email headers to route mail to the correct person. The headers might be encrypted in transit by TLS between email servers but this is not guaranteed.
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- jhabdas 7y agoSo wait, are they reintroducing ECC? > This announcement is an example of why I am not using ProtonMail anymore. There are a lot of things they do that sound very good on marketing materials, but upon examination are security theater. Quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19747493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19747493 As a user for more than a year I've suffered data loss using the Bridge Client on macOS, seen (and have copies of) encrypted phishing emails originating from trusted TLDs and PM themselves, and well, if they fixed something in the new release I'd really hope it would be the Phishing report button - which doesn't seem to work on Android. I looked at Tutanota as an alternative, but in the end all I really wanted was something that integrates with my operating environments and just works. There are plenty of ways to communicate securely. Email doesn't have to be best one.
- 292355744930110 7y agoThat blog post was linked from this one in the quote: > To switch to ECC and to learn more about how it works, check out our recent article.