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Post by shaby Tue 27 May - 20:44

When the NSA surveillance news broke last year it sent shockwaves through CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. Andy Yen, a PhD student, took to the Young at CERN Facebook group with a simple message: “I am very concerned about the privacy issue, and I was wondering what I could do about it.”
There was a massive response, and of the 40 or so active in the discussion, six started meeting at CERN’s Restaurant Number 1, pooling their deep knowledge of computing and physics to found https://protonmail.ch/, a gmail-like email system which uses end-to-end encryption, making it impossible for outside parties to monitor.
Encrypted emails have actually been around since the 1980s, but they are extremely difficult to use. When Edward Snowden asked a reporter to use an end-to-end encrypted email to share details of the NSA surveillance program the reporter couldn’t get the system to work, says Yen.
“We encrypt the data on the browser before it comes to the server,” he explains. “By the time the data comes to the server it’s already encrypted, so if someone comes to us and says we’d like to read the emails of this person, all we can say is we have the encrypted data but we’re sorry we don’t have the encryption key and we can’t give you the encryption key.”
“We’ve basically separated the message that’s encrypted apart from the key – all the encryption takes place on your computer instead of our servers, so there’s no way for us to see the original message.”
This is different from all other systems, says Yen. While Gmail has implemented some encryption, they still have the encrypted message and the key to decrypt the message.
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Cofounders, from left to right, Jason Stockman, Wei Sun, Andy Yen.
While half the team is now at MIT, some are still in Switzerland where the ProtonMail’s servers are housed for extra protection. “One of the key things we want to do is control our servers and make sure all the servers are in Switzerland which will increase privacy because Switzerland doesn’t do things like seize servers or tape conversations,” says Yen. This will help avoid a situation where the U.S government could forcibly shut them down, says Yen, similar to what happened to Lavabit last year.
Yen has turned down venture capital firms looking to invest in ProtonMail. “The reason we have to be bootstrapped is because if we take our money from something like Google GOOGL +1.96% Ventures, there goes our credibility. By being in this market we have to fund ourselves,” he says, adding that they’re considering a crowdfunding round next month.
ProtonMail’s revenue model is similar to something like Dropbox – charging only for extra storage.
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Co-Founder Jason Stockman giving an informal lecture at MIT
“One of our motivations was human rights,” says Yen. “Having privacy is very important from a freedom of speech standpoint.”
The paid accounts will be $5/month and will provide 1GB of storage. Yen says they will accept bitcoin or even cash payments to allow users to remain anonymous.
They recently ran an update so they could support Chinese. Yen says they didn’t advertise this but through Twitter TWTR +0.03% a blogger who has been involved in the freedom of speech movement heard about the service.
“All of a sudden we had an influx of hundreds of Chinese users – these are dissidents that don’t want the government to be tracking them,” says Yen. “It’s because we want to support users like this that we want to keep a certain level of the service free.”
Yen expects they’ll see the most traction in countries like China, Syria, Russia and Iran, where “you have these massive populations who cannot send an email without fear that they’re going to get arrested.”

It’s also an alternative to the ad-based revenue model of free services like Gmail which actively scan your emails to deliver relevant ads to you online.
“You’re forced to trust Google,” says Yen. “What this really shows is that Google is not really trustworthy. Google makes money by scanning your emails and feeding you ads off of what you’re writing about; part of their core structure is to allow Gmail to read your emails and use your data.”
Most of ProtonMail’s team spends half their time working on the project. “We’re all CERN or MIT scientists, so we’re doing research on computing, mathematics, physics that’s actually closely related to what we do on the secure email. Encryption is very mathematical so we have four PhD physicists working on this,” says Yen.
ProtonMail just launched globally out of a private beta and is currently working on an Android or iPhone app expected to be ready by the end of the summer. Yen says demand is far higher than expected.
“We’re close to 20,000 users now and have had to close the signups temporarily while we add more servers. We were not expecting 10,000 users per day even in our most optimistic projections so we’re scrambling now to support more,” he says.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/05/19/the-only-email-system-the-nsa-cant-access/

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Post by Trinity Wed 28 May - 19:26

Šteta što nisi preveo. Nadam se da im možemo vjerovati da je tako kako kažu i na svojoj web stranici.
Ne prikupljaju nikakve osobne podatke niti prate korisnike. Imaju free opciju i non-free. Plaćanje je bitcoinima ili cashom. Da ne ostane trag.
Pokušala sam otvoriti e-mail adresu, ali zbog velike navale primaju se samo rezervacije. 
Ali sam si zato rezervirala very nice username.  :)
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Post by Guest Wed 28 May - 21:44

ako se malo bolje pogleda,gore lijevo,vidi se da pieše BETA verzija..osi toga,bogomdani sam,pa ne činim nezakonite stvari,p me boli kiki,ako neka budala gubi vrijeme na moj majl.. Basketball
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Post by Trinity Thu 29 May - 3:01

Je BETA verzija, to je tek startup ali za svaku pohvalu. Ne radim ni ja ništa nezakonito ( nije da ne dolazim u napast  :) ), ali volim svoju privatnost držati za sebe.
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Post by Trinity Fri 20 Jun - 3:58

Stiže mail iz ProtonMaila, ja se poveselila  da su mi odobrili e-mail adresu, ali kažu da se još strpim i da bi im dobro došao moj contribution.
Strpljenja imam... :) 
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Post by Trinity Sun 20 Jul - 8:34

PayPal Freezes  $275,000 Campaign Funds of Secure-Email Startup 'ProtonMail'

ProtonMail, an End-to-End Encrypted email service developed by MIT, Harvard and CERN researchers, who already received over $275,000 from a crowdfunding campaigns to their PayPal account, and was so much excited to launch its beta version, but just before that PayPal freezes their account without any warning.
At this time, it is not possible for ProtonMail to receive or send funds through PayPal,” ProtonMail co-founder Andy Yen announced this morning. “No attempt was made by PayPal to contact us before freezing our account, and no notice was given.


ProtonMail is a new super-secure email service that encrypts the data on the browser before it communicates with the server, this means only encrypted data is stored in the email service servers.


GO HOME PAYPAL, YOU ARE DRUNK
ProtonMail service is based in Switzerland, so it won't have to comply with American courts’ demands to provide users data. But a representative from the American payment service, PayPal told the company that the payment service is not at all sure if ProtonMail is legal or not and asked them for the necessary government approvals to encrypt emails.

He [Paypal representative] questioned whether ProtonMail is legal and if we have government approval to encrypt emails. We are not sure which government PayPal is referring to, but even the4th Amendment of the US constitution guarantees: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures….” ProtonMail said in a blog post.

No doubt, it is completely legal to encrypt emails and as far I know, no such government approval is required.


NEW PAYPAL POLICIES FOR CROWDFUNDED PROJECTS

The Only Email System The NSA Can't Access Protonmail-paypal-account

Few months back Paypal updated its policies for Crowdfunded Projects [page Deleted by Paypal], that use Paypal as a payment option on crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo and Kickstarter.


According to new policies, Paypal may ask fundraisers to provide supporting documentation to confirm their identity and/or business or to confirm how the money from the campaign will be used. Individuals or organizations have to submit following information to Paypal:


  • Full legal name and Date of Birth
  • Address and Government issued photo identification
  • Tax Identification number or Social Security number
  • Website address associated with your campaign
  • Proof of tax exempt status if you’re a nonprofit
  • Your business plan and mission statement
  • Names of your business owners and executives
  • Marketing strategy and Vendor, supplier, manufacturer, or distributor information


PayPal doesn't want to deal with upset customers in case a campaign turns out to be a scam or if it fails to develop a final product, because many crowdfunding websites allow owners to pull funds before they reach their final goal.


PROTONMAIL vs NSA SURVEILLANCE
ProtonMail was supposed to be an easy [url=http://thehackernews.com/search/label/end-to-end encryption]end-to-end email encryption[/url] tool that will hopefully give an end to Internet surveillance around the world.

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ProtonMail will implement AES, RSA and OpenPGP encryptions and moreover, there is even a “self-destruct” feature in the email service which ensures your emails are only available for a limited period of time.
ProtonMail is still crowdfunding, but it’s only taking credit card and Bitcoin payments and it has gained over US$10,000 in Bitcoin donations alone

http://thehackernews.com/2014/07/paypal-freezes-275000-campaign-funds-of.html
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Post by Guest Tue 29 Jul - 19:26

dakle,Placaj Druze koci razvoj finog i sigurnog majla.... No
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Post by Trinity Tue 29 Jul - 19:28

Je, pa sam ja i dalje na listi čekanja... No
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Post by Guest Tue 29 Jul - 19:29

nis,koristi sto i dosada..nismo teroristi,pa se ne moramo bijati Cije.. Basketball
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Post by Trinity Tue 29 Jul - 19:31

ma koristim...ali bih voljela imati i ProtonMail...još kakvo sam si username rezervirala  B-)
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Post by Guest Tue 29 Jul - 19:41

pa bude vremenom.ja sam sa svojim zadovoljan,potpuni je transparentanim svim sluzbama sa 3 ili cetiri slova u nazivu  :^0
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Post by shaby Thu 18 Dec - 10:32

We have just completed a major infrastructure upgrade and will be sending over 100,000 invites in the next month!
https://blog.protonmail.ch/infrastructure-upgrades/
https://www.facebook.com/protonmail

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Post by Trinity Thu 18 Dec - 19:12

E fino, još da i ja budem u tih 100,000... :)
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Post by Trinity Thu 18 Dec - 20:48

Jesam !greenstars 
Stigao poziv, registrirala se i imam protonmail.ch mail adresu !  cheers 


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Post by shaby Fri 19 Dec - 21:46

Dobio i ja..:)

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Post by Trinity Fri 19 Dec - 23:01

shaby wrote:Dobio i ja..:)
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Post by Trinity Sat 20 Dec - 19:51

Trinity wrote:
shaby wrote:Dobio i ja..:)
:h5
A koje ti je username ? :gossip :trept
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Post by shaby Sun 21 Dec - 8:20

nije shaby---nebi javno :)

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Post by Trinity Sun 21 Dec - 8:22

ni moje nije Trinity ... :)
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Post by shaby Tue 23 Dec - 7:31

jesi uspjela export-import contacts...ja sa gmaila nikako..(csv-vCard) poslao sam im bug report...on me šalje na vCard format..ali ništa od toga..

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