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Is there anything unsavory about ProtonMail? (beehaw.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For some reason I have it in the back of my mind that they were at one point accused of being a honeypot for US intelligence because of their association with MIT. Probably complete BS, but maybe not. Are they as open source as they claim to be? Looks like they're on github. F-Droid seems to think they have some Google libraries or whatever that they use.

ProtonMail users, how do you like/dislike it?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210710030151/https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/1309380464118030342

and

https://libreddit.pussthecat.org/r/ProtonMail/comments/b847n7/it_has_been_7_months_since_protonmail_said_we_are/ejysilb/

Have a look at their Wikipedia article as well:

"The source code for the back-end remains closed source.[26][27] However, Proton Mail released the source code for the web interface under an open-source license.[28] Proton Mail also open sourced their mobile clients for iOS and Android,[29][30] as well the Proton Mail Bridge app.[31]"

EDIT: people seem to get mad if I post anything from Restore Privacy, but in any case here's their take on Proton: https://restoreprivacy.com/email/reviews/protonmail/

EDIT EDIT: looks like I should have done some homework before posting 🙄 oh, well...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Thanks!