ProtonMail is Inherently Insecure, Your Emails Are Likely Compromised

I’m currently writing this post in a dark room by candelight and it seems fitting. Ever since I got into this space, and even before, people have always been quick to recommend ProtonMail, a ‘private’ email service based in Switzerland. I’ll admit though, I went along with it and used the service, but after a while, seeing its growth gave me an uneasy gut feeling. As I should have done half a year ago, I finally read into it, and my suspicions were validated. If nothing else, take away these three points from this post: 1. ProtonMail is inherently insecure, if you’ve used the Webmail client, ProtonMail has always had the ability to grab your password and private encryption key without you knowing, giving them backdated access to your emails. 2. ProtonMail lies to its supporters and has close ties with intelligence agencies, and world governments. 3. ProtonMail has several points of security failure which can be utilized by many bad actors.