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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Proton encrypts and decrypts your data on your machine. The secure key for this lives on your machine and never leaves. Proton do not have a copy of your key because if that key is shared with anyone, human or program, then it is no longer secure. In order to build the feature you're talking about, that security would have to be broken. Not changed: broken. Made ineffective. Thus defying the entire point of the product.

I recommend further study. This will get you started: https://www.eccouncil.org/cybersecurity-exchange/cyber-novice/free-cybersecurity-courses-beginners/

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

just let me encrypt my data locally. I don't trust their obfuscated JavaScript to handle my encryption keys. Give me IMAP and I'll use my good old client with my OpenPGP plugin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Your data is encrypted locally with Proton. Your second sentence is what you really mean, and I'm not saying you have to use or trust Proton, just that because of that local encryption of the data, third party apps can't access the data without compromising the security of the service.

Your described setup takes knowledge (and patience!) which customers of Proton do not possess. If you do, Proton is not the product for you, but it doesn't matter because you can build and maintain what you need.