Is ProtonMail Broken?
Channel: DFIRScience
Date: 2021-09-07

Security-focused email provider ProtonMail was found to provide the IP address of a French activist to Swiss authorities. This is despite the fact that ProtonMail claims to not record IP addresses and other information. This video looks at how ProtonMail technically works, and what information the Swiss-based company can be compelled to disclose.

00:00 Protonmail news
00:47 Past authority requests
02:07 Protonmail connection example
04:11 Connecting from your phone
04:53 Connecting through Tor  
06:10 Why people are upset vs reality
07:02 Is Protonmail secure?
07:54 Investigator vs Privacy

Digital forensic investigation bouns: See Matthieu Regnery's amazing post about decrypting the ProtonMail iOS App: https://xperylab.medium.com/protonmail-forensic-decryption-of-ios-app-8e9ae9f50953

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Links:
* Protonmail: https://protonmail.com
* Protonmail transparency report: https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/
* ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after an order by Swiss authorities: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/

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