Why You Should Have Protonmail

 

https://protonmail.com/

 

 

When you communicate with others via e-mail, the content of your messages may be read or scanned by someone other than your intended recipient (the addressee). It should be no secret by now that many of the major e-mail providers scan the content of your private e-mail to provide targeted advertising to you, the user. E-mail services can be, and often are, hacked. The recent Yahoo e-mail hack is just one example (See: "Every single Yahoo account was hacked - 3 billion in all" CNN Money Oct 3, 2017) And for some there may be the concern of your e-mail being accessed through legal discovery, or search warrant.

 

Now while you may not care about some of the content of your e-mail being exposed, you no doubt have personal e-mail content that you don’t want shared with anyone other than the intended recipient. To protect your personal and private communications with close friends and family, it is important to get everyone to communicate through an end-to-end encrypted e-mail service. For this, I recommend that you get everyone to sign up for and use a ProtonMail account.

 

ProtonMail is an end-to-end encrypted email service founded in 2013 at the CERN research facility in Geneva, Switzerland. ProtonMail uses client-side encryption to protect email contents and user data before they are sent to ProtonMail servers, in contrast to other common email providers such as Gmail and Hotmail. The service can be accessed through a webmail client or dedicated iOS and Android apps.  

 

When communicating on the ProtonMail network all your communication between ProtonMail accounts is encrypted using PGP. You also have the ability to send encrypted e-mail to users of other services if you have a shared message password; but having all of your close friends and family using the ProtonMail network is a much more secure option.  

 

• ProtonMail is incorporated in Switzerland and all our servers are located in Switzerland. This means all user data is protected by strict Swiss privacy laws.
• All emails are secured automatically with end-to-end encryption. This means even ProtonMail cannot decrypt and read your emails. As a result, your encrypted emails cannot be shared with third parties.
• No personal information is required to create your secure ProtonMail account. By default, ProtonMail does not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account.