These remedies would limit ProtonMail’s ability to infiltrate your data so long as you stuck to your mobile app or used only the browser add-on on your regular computer. ProtonMail is addressing this-it is beta testing a native mobile app for iOS and Android, and Yen says the company plans to offer a browser add-on option after ProtonMail’s code becomes more stable. This would be much more difficult to do if it was a browser add-on or a native program you install because then if they wanted to make their client malicious, they would have to add a backdoor and make it malicious for everyone, and everybody would have evidence of that backdoor.”
“They could just wait until you load the page and give you a malicious version of the JavaScript. “You have to completely trust that the server is not compromised because every single time you load the page, you download a new copy of the JavaScript,” Lee says. It could also serve malicious code to a targeted individual (based on a specific IP address, for example) if legally compelled to do so. And it's attracting loads of backing-it raised $2 million in seed funding in March, and about half a million users have requested an invitation for a free 500MB account.
The service claims on its website that it “cannot decrypt or share your data with third parties." It also boasts extra legal protection because it’s based in Switzerland, a country with strict privacy laws. It, too, claimed that even its own admins couldn't read the encrypted email.īut ProtonMail, founded in August, 2013, by scientists who met while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, seems to offer protections other email services don't. In 2014, a federal judge forced the now-defunct secure email company Lavabit to turn over its encryption keys to the government, though Lavabit earlier claimed its service was “so secure that even our administrators can’t read your email." Going further back, we learned that encrypted email provider Hushmail was totally cool with spilling secrets to the government, which it did by grabbing user passwords to decrypt email and turning them over to law enforcement in plaintext. But just how secure is it?Įmail applications that say they're strong enough to foil government snoops and advertisers too often have chinks in their armor. The newest of them, ProtonMail, attracted widespread attention after the main character on the hit hacking show Mr. Plenty of email systems claim to be highly secure.
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