1.Protonmail Behaves like a CIA/NSA “Honeypot” Protonmail has an Onion domain that allows users to visit their site using the TOR browser.  Protonmail even has an SSL cert for that onion address even though it's completely unnecessary. When a user makes a new account with Protonmail on TOR they are

Interesting article critical of Protonmail, a service I see widely promoted to political dissidents as a way to avoid NSA surveillance of emails.

Maybe a better method would be GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) to encrypt e-mails on your own computer before sending them?

There is also this: https://sendgrid.com/blog/what-is-starttls/

Or Bitmessage (which is decentralised)?

  • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    Maybe a better method would be GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) to encrypt e-mails on your own computer before sending them?

    Yes. This. I wish this were more well known and ubiquitous. It seems weird and complicated at first but it's rather easy and one of those things that can become second nature once you do it just a few times. And it's all there in your hands. You're not relying on some external service provider, having to trust them that they really are respecting your privacy.

    If anyone wants practice, I'd be happy to swap public keys and send/receive some messages.