Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail

Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by chimeracoder on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:27AM (#15533858)

> Arent there many (difficult to judge how many) cases of people losing access to their Google account, and therefore about everything they had online (photos, email, videos, etc...). That is also scary enough, especially when it happens randomly with no clear reason why and the support of Google seems to be limited to sending info via forms in the hope of a future human interaction.

There are, but that's not incorporated into a threat model because it's not a security issue (at least not a first-order security problem).

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by dredmorbius on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:10PM (#15534238)

Denial of service (or access) is one of several possible security threats.

Unauthorised access, content modification or deletion, impersonation, and several other categories of security policy violations are also fairly typical.

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by chimeracoder on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:19PM (#15534314)

> Denial of service (or access) is one of several possible security threats. Unauthorised access, content modification or deletion, impersonation, and several other categories of security policy violations are also fairly typical.

Most of the cases of people losing access to their Google account that I've seen are not ones which would could feasibly be induced by a dedicated attacker unless they already had access to your account in the first place.

That may be a part of your personal threat model and also your decision-making, but from Google's perspective, that's not a security issue.

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by dredmorbius on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:56PM (#15534647)

Unusual access patterns or attempts may provoke lockouts.

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