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| women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll |
I need to get a new email account because the alumni one I’ve been using for the last 16 years is going to get shutdown at the end of July. Proton Mail is an option that interests me primarily because it’s not google or any of the large providers that have the reputation for scanning the contents in order to sell your information. Does anyone here use Proton Mail and have any feedback positive or negative? Thank you! | ||
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Better Than I Deserve! |
I've use it for all my financial and personal emails. It is offshore and encrypted. I still use gmail.com for purchases and other non private things over email. Highly recommend ProtonMail, it works really well. ____________________________ NRA Benefactor Life Member GOA Life Member Arizona Citizens Defense League Life Member | |||
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I use it and it's excellent and secure. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I'm not being lazy; I went to the site to find out more about it. I couldn't find a section on how it works. I get it that their hook is encrypted email. But how does it work? If you send an email, does the receiver have to have an encryption key? If someone sends you an email, do they have to use your public encryption key? "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Alienator |
I use it for forum email. SIG556 Classic P220 Carry SAS Gen 2 SAO SP2022 9mm German Triple Serial P938 SAS P365 FDE Psalm 118:24 "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" | |||
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I've had it since 2014. (Had to look at original email. ProtonMail Beta evidently launched May 2014). Got in with the beta testers. I primarily use it for financial items and communicating when out of the US. Which brings up a concern. If you travel out of US, even to Canada, I highly recommend you do not take an electronic device that has all of your personal/financial data/records nor email archives. Either take another device or switch out SSD/hard drives if laptops to a clean bare system. Not that you are doing anything illegal or questionable, but I've seen associates experience their laptops/tablets held during customs inspections with demands for their passwords or to "open" up the device. You don't want to be there. | |||
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| women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll |
So would using Proton Mail as my primary email address be overkill? Emails to friends, confirmation on online purchases and such. Perhaps I should do a gmail address for that stuff and Proton for the more important stuff? I just hate the ide of google knowing everything about me. | |||
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I only use PM for those more financial/travel sensitive emails, but it's up to you. (I do that mainly because of those two PM mailbox passwords). I have gmail set up to auto login on my laptop- don't want to do that with the Proton Mail. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
I’ll add that when you sign up it’s theoretically more secure to choose the .ch over the .com email address. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Honky Lips |
I've got one, I didn't use it because I like email notifications. | |||
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They now have an @pm.me domain for paying customers in addition to @protonmail.com and @protonmail.ch. You also get 4 or 5 aliases. They all map to your primary email eccount more less. They also have a VPN service for an additional fee. | |||
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| Living In A Wild Place |
I use it as well. | |||
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Hold Fast |
Very happy with Proton mail. It's Swiss!  ****************************************************************************** Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet . . . | |||
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| stupid beyond all belief  |
i got it in beta. dont use it. Liked it What man is a man that does not make the world better. -Balian of Ibelin Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
I use Startmail, very similar. A few years ago when I switched I looked at Proton mail but I went Startmail. Honestly I couldn't tell you why but at the time it seemed better. I have had zero complaints. Nice not using yahoo anymore. | |||
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[A bit off topic and a side note on encryption] I often wondered about the choice of "Bob" and "Alice" in encryption examples. It is almost universal and goes back a long ways. The only reasonable explanation I could come up with was Alice is "Point A" and Bob is "Point B" in the transmission link. Other universal names are used, too, such as "Eve" for the eavesdropper. | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
^^^ Waaaay back in time, at a point best reached via DeLorean, when I worked at Bell Labs using very early versions of UNIX™, we tended to use "fred" and "suzy." Fred is easy to explain: a very fast pattern to type using the first two fingers of your left hand. I have no idea about suzy. Side note: I was teaching an "Intro To UNIX™" class. The notation "fred > suzy" in the context that we were discussing, actually means that the contents of the file named "fred" replace whatever was in the file named "suzy," and if "suzy" did not previously exist, create the file. Review time: I wrote that line, "fred > suzy," on the board and asked the class what it meant. One guy ansered, "Fred goes into Suzy." The way he said it -- the class started laughing. I had to turn around, facing the board and presenting my back to the class because I was cracking up. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Similar for me... in another career I found myself part of a R&D development team that used QNX software on the prototype. I didn't know much about QNX and asked if there was any documentation. All of the developmental engineers there (who were leaving for other projects) laughed till they cried and thought that was the funniest thing they had ever heard. (There was no documentation... and if you typed "help" you got one sentence that said "Abandon hope all ye who enter here"...
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