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Updated October 7, 2016 with additional clarification and analysis of Yahoo’s denial Dear Proton Mail Community, Two weeks ago, we published a security advisory regarding the mass hacking of Yahoo. Unfortunately, due to recent events, we are issuin
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CONFIRMING WHAT WAS LONG SUSPECTED BY THE SECURITY COMMUNITY, YAHOO HAS CONFIRMED A MASSIVE BREACH OF OVER 500 MILLION EMAIL ACCOUNTS, INCLUDING BOTH CREDENTIALS AND SECURITY QUESTIONS. October 4, 2017 Update: Yahoo now confirms that the hack impact
CISA Surveillance Law
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This is a Portuguese translated version of an Article which we originally published on December 21, 2015. We want to give special thanks to Proton Mail user jjsergio for the translation. Com essa lei veio a perda de inúmeras proteções extremamente i
Swiss surveillance referendum
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WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT, DUE TO THE EFFORTS OF OUR USERS AND ALLIES, THE SWISS SURVEILLANCE LAW WILL BE PUT TO A VOTE BY THE SWISS PEOPLE! In September last year, the Swiss parliament passed a new surveillance law known as the Nachrichtendiens
CISA Surveillance Law
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LATE LAST FRIDAY, THE US CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNED INTO LAW THE CISA SURVEILLANCE LAW USING VERY UNDERHANDED METHODS. With it came the loss of numerous protections extremely important to internet privacy. To understand why the CISA surveil
Swiss surveillance law
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IN SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR, THE SWISS PARLIAMENT PASSED A NEW SWISS SURVEILLANCE LAW, KNOWN AS THE NACHRICHTENDIENSTGESETZ (NDG) IN GERMAN AND LA LOI SUR LE RENSEIGNEMENT (LRENS) EN FRANÇAISE. 2017 Update – In the months since the law was first intro
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HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a web security policy that is made to protect secure HTTPS websites against downgrade attacks that is used to perform Man in the middle attacks. “Once a supported browser receives this header that browser will
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Most of us at Proton Mail are part of the last generation born before the World Wide Web was created in 1989 at CERN in Switzerland. In the previous 30 years, the web has transformed our world, and we now spend more and more of our lives online. In t