Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service
voracitude@lemmy.world 10 months agoProton encrypts and decrypts your data on your machine. The key lives on your machine and never leaves. Protein do not have a copy of your key because that key should not be shared with anyone, human or program, or it is no longer secure. In order to build the feature you’re talking about, that security would have to be broken. Not changed: broken. Made ineffective. Thus defying the entire point of the product.
I recommend further study. This might be a good place to start: eccouncil.org/…/free-cybersecurity-courses-beginn…
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 10 months ago
just let me encrypt my data locally. I don’t trust their obfuscated JavaScript to handle my encryption keys. Give me IMAP and I’ll use my good old client with my OpenPGP plugin.
voracitude@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Your data is encrypted locally with Proton. Your second sentence is what you really mean, and I’m not saying you have to use or trust Proton, just that because of that local encryption of the data, third party apps can’t access the data.
Your described setup takes knowledge (and patience!) which customers of Proton do not possess. If you do, Proton is not the product for you, but it doesn’t matter because you can build and maintain what you need.