Is Protonmail Safe for Security and Privacy?

Is Protonmail a safe email platform for security and privacy?

This video explains the risks of emails in general and then discusses the specifics of Protonmail (which are the same as Tutanota, Startmail and other privacy email platforms). Are you in fact made safer by these platforms?

Would Snowden or John McAfee use these email platforms? Let's find out.

What is the safest email option?

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[robbraxmantech]

I will dedicate the live stream this coming Friday 8pm Pacific to analyzing the many choices you can make with email. There are too many possibilities in email and it depends on how much risk you accept.

[kreendurron]

I can't tell you enough how much I love that you have made up a new curse word "Zucking"

[herrprepper]

I dumped all of my google, facebook, firefox, etc. crap when they openly endorsed and utilized mass censorship.

[MrSkinnyn]

Just When I thought I had a tiny grasp of knowledge before watching your channel makes me feel really stupid now. Your channel is imperative for everyday people.

[donaldduck]

I just don't want to support google

[Milosz_Ostrow]

Most people with whom I communicate on the Internet are technically not capable of setting up and maintaining secure channels of communication. Some of them may talk about privacy, but then turn around and spill their guts on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. I think it is largely a lost cause.

[ShirazBhutto]

I can’t believe I haven’t run into your channel earlier!!! These are some of the most informative videos I have seen on privacy and cyber security. Keep them coming, I’ll keep watching.

[rohitsharma]

Wow, mind blowing! I love your videos sir, and I'm a student and will pursue my career in cyberspace security after completing the School. The way you explain the issues, it's root cause and the solution, I'd never find on any channel.

[brendanoakley]

Almost all modern MTA's use TLS for SMTP. The initial connection is plain text, but after STARTTLS the communication is in fact encrypted.

[denisr]

Thank you Bob for your help. Generally I now realise that outside of being majorly Tech savvy, there is next door to nothing we can do to keep out data private. I guess that except for receiving relatively innocuous stuff, stay off the email if you want to keep your thoughts private.

[Sonu-tzjs]

I like protonmail. I like way it sounds - proton - positive charge.

[franckbenarroch]

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[organichotdog]

Use whatever email service you like and If you want privacy, encrypt your messages with PGP. The receiver will need to use PGP to decrypt your message.

[Stonefactor]

You Sir, are a gem 💎. I'm glad a came across your video. Shared.

[SMorrisRose]

The strong implication here is that because SMTP wasn't built to support encryption, it isn't used between MTAs. It's true an unencrypted inter-MTA transfer is entirely compatible with SMTP. But we have had a number of standards since well before this video was recorded that make it practical for MTAs to not only use encryption but to require it from their peers. MTA-STS, with us since 2018, is one such. Of course, the existence of a standard doesn't do you any good if it's not used, but ProtonMail *does* use MTA-STS, and has since before this video was published. This seems like a tempest in a teapot, but ears open to how I'm wrong.

[RandyRandersonthefamous]

Thank you for informing the public on these technical issues and how big business abuses our privacy. People joke that their phones are listening, but they wouldn't joke so easily if they really grasped how much of their data is being mined. You could see where they went anywhere for the past 5 years, and hear everything they said at every place they went!

[pablo-bdxu]

Thanks for putting this together. A question - is Protonmail's web interface any more or less secure than a local email client like Thunderbird?

[rubartknas]

You are the man. THX for sharing and clearly pointing out what's the state of the people's mailadress's. It helps a lot to get rid of some selfbetraying illusionary presumptions.

[gizgad]

Great topic of discussion Rob. The topics you bring up are things I would like to to talk about one day on my channel. Thanks for your candid responses.

[surfviewgardens]

Great video! Rob, you surely know your stuff. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.