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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by rahiel on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:05AM (#15533695)
The end-to-end encryption is only between protonmail addresses, in practice when you email people with gmail/hotmail/yahoo etc. it doesn't matter if protonmail can't read the e-mail, the other party can. (Their solution for that is to send an e-mail that contains a password-protected link with the actual message [0], I find this procedure inconvenient.)

Gmail could be as secure as Protonmail by using PGP yourself [1]. And then you can keep your desktop mail client.

Also Google won't need to pay criminals if they're DDOS attacked like Protonmail in the past: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/11/05/proto... (this is when I gave up on Protonmail)

[0]: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/encrypt-for-ou...

[1]: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by endijs on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:12AM (#15533753)
I wanted to touch this part: "And then you can keep your desktop mail client." . Actually you can use your desktop mail client with ProtonMail too. All you need to do, is install ProtonMail Bridge. It's in closed Beta right now, but it works pretty well (i'm using with Thunderbird).
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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by tonyztan on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:46AM (#15534006)
Regarding DDOS, ProtonMail has since installed a mitigation system to prevent this.

https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/email-ddos-pro...

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by ryacko on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:10PM (#15538092)
STARTTLS is used though.
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