After 350,000+ Beta Sign-Ups, ProtonMail Takes $2M to Scale Its Encrypted Email

Posted by johnfox415 on Friday March 20, 2015 @09:15AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/20/protonmail-seed/

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Re:After 350,000+ Beta Sign-Ups, ProtonMail Takes $2M to Sca... by deitcher on Friday March 20, 2015 @09:20AM (#9237469)

All of these have the same problems. If the client encrypts, then the client can be subverted. With webmail, the client is downloaded every single time, and thus can be subverted on the server.

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