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Protonmail: Swiss-based secure email, launched by MIT and CERN scientists

May 20, 2014Daily NewsBy wp-admin

“Even we don’t have the ability to read that email,” ProtonMail creator Andy Yen told BostInno. “If we can’t read it, we obviously can’t turn it over to any government agencies.”

Following a year of NSA bulk Internet surveillance program leaks, a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard students have come together to create what they call “NSA-proof” email.

Dubbed ProtonMail by its five creators, the service is designed to be a more-secure replacement for the now-defunct Lavabit — the former email platform of choice for NSA contractor and prolific surveillance program leaker Edward Snowden.
ProtonMail launched its open beta over the weekend after weeks of testing in private, and the service is incorporated in Switzerland, “which offers some of the strongest privacy protection in the world for both individuals and entities,” according to the platform’s website.
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Social links: protonmail.ch , @ProtonMail
[Source: Dailycaller.com, may 19, 2014]​
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