Scientists from CERN and MIT launch encrypted email service

ProtonMail is a new secure email service created by scientists from CERN and MIT

The privacy of the data that we put online has been a hot topic over the last year.

In order to protect against unwanted snooping, a group of scientists has created a new secure email service. ProtonMail provides end-to-end encryption, meaning that even the company itself can’t even see the content of your messages.

People often ask us if ProtonMail is 100 percent secure, and our answer is that it is impossible to have 100 percent security. What ProtonMail does is makes mass surveillance by organizations, such as the NSA, so difficult that it is no longer practical.”

Read more . . .