Scientists from CERN and MIT launch encrypted email service

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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.

The service started being developed in 2013 by a group of CERN scientists who wanted a more secure and private internet, in part as a response to the Edward Snowden leaks. “We began thinking about this problem long before the Snowden leaks, but the leaks were what drove us to take action, as they truly demonstrated how much online privacy had eroded,” company co-founder Andy Yen told Gizmag.

 

Original Source: http://www.gizmag.com/protonmail-secure-encrypted-email/32307/

 
 
 

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