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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by oldengoldie on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:50PM (#15534595)
If Protonmail servers are hacked, it's game over (that could be mitigated by having verified client code, but at this time there's the web client that is served dynamically, and the mobile clients are closed source...). That is where Protonmail are at a huge disadvantage unless they have a really really good security team. Server hacking is done a dime a dozen nowadays.
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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by fauigerzigerk on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:00PM (#15534679)
That's a threat that Gmail faces as well though.
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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by mentat on Monday October 23, 2017 @05:56PM (#15537270)
With a security budget several orders of more, yes.
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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:24AM (#15539826)
Google also has much more diverse security problems to solve so that's not a good argument either way.
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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by ionised on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:56AM (#15540454)
It has to have a larger budget, it's operating on a larger scale.
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