Which is the BEST Secure Email Option? Let's Compare...
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Which secure email service should you use? I’ve spent the past couple of months testing out 4 of the best encrypted email services and here’s a comparison of the most important features. I'll also share some things you should NOT do once you start using a secure email provider.
▶ ProtonMail: go.getproton.me/aff_c?offer_i... (create free account)
▶ StartMail: www.startmail.com/en/partner/... (7-day trial)
▶ Mailfence: mailfence.com/?src=ats (create free account)
▶ Tutanota: www.tutanota.com (free trial account)
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0:00 - Secure Email Options
1:26 - How Encryption for Secure Email Works
3:56 - Securing Your Email with 2FA
6:14 - User Experience: How Easy is Secure Email to Use?
9:06 - Which Secure Email is Best for You?
10:58 - Two Things You Should NOT Do
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If you're looking for a more private and secure way to handle your email, it's time you move away from services like Gmail and Yahoo. Instead, opt to use one of the best secure email services like StartMail, ProtonMail, MailFence, and Tutanota. In this video, Josh will walk us through each of these services, their features and how they compare to one another.
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Are you still using free email services or have you finally decided to invest a little money for better encrypted email? I'm curious where you stand. And if you want to just test it all out, you can sign up for a free ProtonMail account here (affiliate link): www.allthingssecured.com/yt/protonmail
I used proton on pay account for more than a year and now for free for a few years more. I just do not like being baited with "free account" to find it was just click baiting. I am fine with proton.
I stopped protonmail since I get hacked And realized that the recovery system was hell
So the only way I could get any of these is if I have Bitcoin. What do you do if you don't have Bitcoin and you want a more secure email?😊
Thanks for the review! We plan on releasing an iOS/Android app. We hope you all like it ;)
Great! I look forward to trying it out when it's released.
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Hey! How to open a account?
Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for
Mailfence is not even open source. How it got here does make me/one wonder about the integrity of some influencers.
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Did you guys ever release the iOS app?
Hi Josh! I'm from Brazil and I follow your channel almost 1 year (I think). I can say that is the best channel to know about privacy and security settings for all online services. Great job! Thanks for the tips and advises!
I appreciate that!
Really great info as usual Josh - thank you!
Another highly informative video Josh, many thanks. I really enjoy your content, and although nothing online is completely bulletproof I have made a number of security changes/improvements to my online accounts that would simply not have happened without the guidance in your videos. Keep up the good work.
Wow, thanks so much for the kind words! I'm glad to hear that the videos have been informative and useful. 👍
Good video. Email aliases are the same thing as disposable addresses I think, that's the very reason why I'm still using Yahoo. Being able to obfuscate your main email address is a great security measure by itself.
Love your videos, Josh. Very clear and informative
Thanks, Robin!
Great video as always, Josh. One thing you didn’t mention, though (unless my ADHD kicked in and I missed it) was that sending email is generally not a secure way of transmitting data. Any email you send across the internet is only as secure as the weakest link in the custody chain.
For example, Gmail uses TLS to encrypt messages going out. I use ProtonMail, which also supports TLS. If my daughter (who uses Gmail) and I exchange email messages, the contents and attachments are reasonably encrypted en route … although still readable by Google, whose servers will decrypt my message before dropping it in my daughter’s inbox. But if I use Protonmail or Gmail to send a message to someone at an email domain that *doesn’t* support TLS, my message (along with its attachments) is wide open for anyone to see en route, and that message will often hop through multiple servers that could store and analyze it.
Another thing: Messages stored in my ProtonMail account are secure, but if I send a message to Gmail, it will be stored on Google’s servers. Google will harvest everything it can from that message, and if a government agency asks them for messages I’ve sent to Gmail domains, I have no doubt that they’ll gladly hand it over. (ProtonMail is less likely to, but there are cases where it has handed over data to foreign governments.)
To be *truly* secure when using email, I (and anyone else using email) need to take specific steps, such as:
• Use a secure email (like one of the four you mentioned) and only send messages to other addresses in the same domain. (Messages sent in-network, from one ProtonMail address to another, are automatically end-to-end encrypted.)
• Use PGP and exchange keys with the recipient before sending email to them. ProtonMail, StartMail, and MailFence support PGP; Tutunota doesn’t (for reasons they explained in a blog post). Gmail doesn’t support PGP natively, although you can do it with a browser plug-in. The problem with PGP is that it requires people to take steps to create, manage, and exchange keys, which admittedly is hard. (My father, who’s in his 80s, could never manage it. In fact, I don’t personally know many people who can.) And the subject line of the message can’t be encrypted, so don’t send a message with “Super secret passwords and credit card numbers” as the subject line, even if you encrypt the body of the message.
• ProtonMail has an encryption feature that will send a message simply as a URL to a page on ProtonMail’s server. The recipient opens the web page and enters a password to read the message and open any attachments. The weak link in the chain is getting the password to the recipient-unless they already know it, you have to send it to them through some other secure method (i.e., not email or SMS). I’ve used Signal to do this, but then why would I bother to send a secure email *and* send the password through Signal, when I can just send the message in Signal in the first place?
• Which brings me to the last option, which is to use Signal or Telegram or another secure instant messaging client and skip email altogether.
Longest comment ever on one of your videos? Might be worth discussing in a follow-up video. FWIW.
Thanks for all you do. More people need to subscribe to your channel and watch your content!
Good answer. Just one thing. Telegram is actually not as secure as people think. Signal is much better in this regard.
@@brlnmchl That's true. Most encrypted messaging services have some weak link-Signal, for example, requires you to give them a working phone number to register. Nothing is perfect.
I’m new to all of this, so I’m curious. Which of the two would you recommend? I was going to go with proton or the Tutanota? I just really wanna use it for crypto. Setting up crypto accounts and setting up vpn services with expressvpn. Any input or personal opinion on which to use for my purposes would be great. Tired of the gov on their hands with everything we do that they don’t need to be on.
Very nice and very good comment
@@MrWhipple42hello, couldnt you get another burner phone number?
I strongly suggest using a custom domain with these services. If they go away, you can simply shift your current email address to another provider. The Gmail's and Hotmail's are far less likely to shutdown or vanish.
If you plan on using one of these services for your primary email, and your email is important to you, use a custom domain that you can move around freely and you can have practically forever, regardless of the underlying service provider.
@June@97 No, you still need it. If you care about your email, if you depend on your email in any meaningful way, then you should use a custom domain that you own. Personal doesn't make a difference. You want to be able to quickly and easily move your existing email address to another service provider in the event that the provider you are using ceases to offer their service. This way you continue to use the same email address with little disruption. If you use a domain owned by the provider and they go away, you lose your email address and everything in your life that you tied it to will need to be changed, if it's even possible to change in some cases.
@@colinmsmall this strategy offers convenience but it almost negates privacy with accounts online. You will be fingerprinted to that domain and they will know exactly who you are and how you buy based on accounts made with that domain
This is an excellent idea. Not only does it protect against an email provider going out of business, but it allows you to switch providers if you change your mind in the future. That way all your accounts verifications still work and you don't have to email all your contacts to give them a new address.
So whos a good option for hosting?
@@colinmsmall Youu make great points. What domain provider would you recommend?
I like the landlord analogy. When I rented my house, the first thing I did was change the locks 😊
The FIRST thing you do is change the locks.
Always excellent and informative. Thanks for your time
Thanks so much, Caroline!
Hi Josh, thanks for the video.
Could you please explain how does thunderbird compromise the benefits of these providers?
Been using ProtonMail for a year or so. Love it. *This* close to being completely weaned off of Gmail.
Nice! It's not easy weaning off of anything Google, honestly 😉
Found out Protonmail is the enemy selling our info to our enemies.
Not agree Securityfile Mail best of any google mail or any emails services!
In 2021 ProtonMail logged the IP of a French National, leading to his arrest. PM must comply with Swiss law, who in this case, was contacted via EuroPol at the behest of the French Gov. The man’s crime, according to tech crunch, was he and his group were apartment squatting in protest against gentrification, real estate speculation, Airbnb and high-end restaurants (some other articles cited him as a climate-activists)- in any case, they’ve set a precedent, which is good to be aware of.
It would be good to be aware of if you told the full story. Try googling all of it instead of your copy and paste
lol everytime i see people bring this up it makes me laugh so hard because most email companies and clients when handed a warrant will give your stuff out. Heck google will give ur local police full access too your acc with a warrant . Same with Microsoft and their emails. It’s just the world we live in companies don’t wanna be held accountable for one bad user so they don’t fight for them.
@@leighsummers1382 how do these companies access your emails if it’s end-to-end encrypted? Or did they simply hand over his IP?
@@kby2._.2 Interesting, thanks for the reply.
@@naughtywizard As far as I know proton gave just the IP address and even if they wanted to give access to emails they were end to end encrypted so it would have been completely pointless
Thanks, Josh. A timely discussion as I was looking to add secure email to my portfolio. If you were more apt to use your mobile device (iOS) to access your account, does anyone have a better look&feel on mobile screens?
I tried setting up tutanota in the past and I don't like the interface. I also like making multiple emails to organize what each one receives rather that sorting recieved email into folders. It's also a good security measure just in case one email gets compromised I still have many others. Anyways for whatever reason tutanota doesn't like multiple emails and now they have my IP or something and I can't use it anymore. Glad I came across this video to learn about more options.
Awesome video, Thank you! I have been using Protonmail now couple years, any knowing or protonmail bridge and Thunderbird?
Do the burner email aliases mentioned at 6:50 still receive emails to the same inbox, or does each have a seperate inbox? Also, I'm curous about the encryption levels, and how it impacts export outside the US
Awesome video Josh! With these secure services would you recommend using a conventional first name.last name sort of email username or something a lot more obscure?
Thank for another great video.
Thank you for watching and commenting, Ben! Really appreciate it.
Great video thanks
Great info. Thanks!
My pleasure, James!
Personally, I still use apple mail, because it’s the most accessible for the blind like myself. Proton mail is not too bad on the Accessibility side, but I am not too sure about Tutanota.
Great video. I am confused about one thing. Since proton mail doesn’t have the encryption key does that mean that the person that I send or receive emails from have to use proton mail so that they can decrypt any email that I send them?
There is an analogue of mail in the decentralized Utopia p2p ecosystem - uMail. The ecosystem itself includes many functions. The main thing is that communication in it is absolutely confidential.
I now communicate via uMail from the Utopia ecosystem. Highly recommend if you need security and anonymity.
I know this has nothing to do with this video, but just wanted to thank you about all your videos on secure password managers. I purchased a 1password subscription through your affiliate link months ago and I absolutely love it. It is well work the 30 something bucks per year. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing, Gabriel! I appreciate your encouraging words and support.
Thanks so much for your videos. I have only been subscribed for less than 24 hours but have already changed my password and turned on 2FA on anything that i can do.
I haven't as yet made the switch to a secure email platform and have currently about 5 emails through the usual gmail, outlook, yahoo forums. Do you have a video/suggestion for 'more secure' client software for windows 11? I watched a RUclips that suggested Gmail, Windows Mail or Outlook are not secure but instead to use Mozilla Thunderbird, which I have done. Do you have any other comments on this issue?
i live in china, i highly recommend proton email as you can access it without VPN unlike gmail
and chinese emails like QQ are likely to be monitored by the ccp
I've been using protonmail for several years. Unfortunately their calendar isn't incorporated in their app. If I open protonmail to read mail in a browser it seems that the security and encryption of the mail are defeated and saved to computer or tablet cached in plain text.
Use Proton but why does chrome ask to open my emails?
I thought having a private email it would just open on it's own.
So if chrome is opening my emails in my private account it's not really private?
thank you so much
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Well done presentation. Thank you.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@AllThingsSecured I'm trying to share this one with my family and friends. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing it!
About ProtonMail- I read that they suffered through two separate DDOS attacks with the latest one being as recent as 2018. Should this be of concern? What are your thoughts?
why? That's not a security breach. That's an attack on availability of service
THank you.
Would love to see a comparison between fastmail and startmail.
Ok what about OnMail is it a secure mail ???
What about outlook 2010 or thunderbird for personal use?
Fun fact: In Germany among other countries the landlord is not allowed to have a key to your apartment.
I don’t understand the third party mail client comment at the end. Proton mail has the ability to be connected and viewed through Apple’s Mail app on Macs. How does this compromise the security of the mail itself?
The last 2 advices are crucial.
Thanks 🙏
New sub - like your explanations many thanks!! Would love to see these services offer a family plan or small business plan. (4 -5 users). It has been hard to find options.
Thanks for sharing, Jorge. I’ll keep my eyes out for that as well.
So Tutanota. First of all, you MUST use their "App" as there are no other option. Contacts cannot sync with Android, which they claim is coming since 2019. The "App" is not an actual app, but rather a Chrome View that loads the WebUI. Dark/Light is a static option, no option to base this on time or device default. I could go on. I would stay clear of this.
Also remember one thing. You may receive your mails securely with all this encryption. But someone out there has an exact copy of this mail in their "Sent" folder that was sent to your service in whichever way they deal with mails. I don't really care about how mails are stored or sent. You should never use mail for something that requires security in the first place. I just wanted a non-google service that would protect access to the mail box a bit more. Other than that, normal things like being able to sync contacts, using my own mail clients, calendar apps etc is a feature, not a bug.
It's now almost a year down the road but I'm wondering if you have ever tested or reviewed SEKUR? I'm curious because I do know Switzerland has the strictest privacy laws. I don't mind paying for something that secure.
SEKUR?? what is that?? some alias provider or good secure mail provider?
I just want to get away from Yahoo and their unrelenting SPAM - OMG it's getting worse and I am super careful about what I click on and where I go, but it does not seem to matter. Thank you for your video.
My pleasure! I'm glad it was helpful, Angela.
I need help I do a broadcast online and I would like an email that I can setup just for communication between myself and anyone interested in communicating with me. Which email do you suggest ?
Wait, Thunderbird is on your own machine AND with TLS there is not clear reason to thing it harms security that I know of. What am I missing?
About these email providers that you mentioned in this video, you said that none of them can read your mail and that only you hold the key. Well I want to inform you that I saw a video about Proton mail the other day where they were asked by authorities to hand over a persons email account and physical address because he is wanted for truancy. So Proton obliged with the request. But you said in this video that the email providers you mentioned in this video can't even do that. But Proton did. So I guess then that Proton also has the key to your mail like you do. So I'm going to try StartMail and hope that they are more secure than Proton.
Have you had any user experience with Identillect Technology Corporation?
The very last point is problematic for me. What would be the increased risk of accessing protonmail by an open-source command-line tool like neomutt?
Securityfile Mail try this email service.
I almost thought I was tracking with you right up until the end when you said not to use Thunderbird, now I'm just as confused as I was before I watched your video. I've been using Thunderbird for over 12 years and I'm not willing to loose everything that I have saved on my HDD in email.
I actually disagree with his thunderbird comment. Thunderbird allows you to pull the mail off their server and purge it from their servers. In my opinion that’s a more secure solution because I don’t trust anyone to store data in the cloud. We’ve seen major companies like google, Microsoft, and LastPass who have lost their encrypted data sets which bypasses all your MFA. Get the data out of the cloud if you want to be truly safe.
what is that at 0:57?? email archive?? that 2tb storage looks juicy really!!
i want to know if its for free
What about Eprivo Encrypted Email? Any comments would be appreciated. This app has been out for a while now - but why no reviews on it. It sure looks pretty good and secure and has some good features…
any thoughts on Zoho?
Great vid. Sub'd
Thanks 🙏
wasn't there a scandal with Proton Mail?
Honest Question, do we need a secure mail provider? I mainly use email for work stuff and some personal stuff that's not really extremely sensitive, hence dont mind using gmail or outlook for that. Why would people not use stuff like Matrix or Signal for actual secure and private communication?
Great question, Kevin, and as with almost anything, my answer will be NO - you rarely "need" these services. For me, this kind of service is useful for all the communication that *can't* happen via Signal. For example, I use a secure email for my banking, investment accounts and for anything related to my taxes and IRS stuff.
Also, for those people who don't want their email communications used by big data to profile us, there is a privacy component to choosing a secure email provider.
And remember, we all think we have "nothing to hide"...until it all gets exposed: ruclips.net/video/mz8-xeE7_I0/видео.html
Do you use tax software?
Is there any updates on the 2FA Key acceptance for Proton Mail?
I know yubikeys work with it now.
@@Wigglythegreat2 that's the answer I've been waiting to hear.
Why not Mailbox included in this video? Isn't as good?
mailfense is base in beligusm, Tutanota is base in germany, from 14 eys, proton mail from Swaziland, was said to be most secure, but recent report say even it is most secure it has to follow the law from that country based in.
Not to forget: many Proton employees are not based in Switzerland, but in the USA!
They are subject to American laws or can be blackmailed by the NSA ...
Can you make a video about how one goes de-googling from their life? I really appreciate it.
You state, don't set up your mail to forward all mail... question: Is there harm in forwarding single emails here and there, either to or from a mainstream address? If so, can you explain the reasons, please? Appreciate it
No, I don't think there's any harm. My warning was for those who were just setting a blanket "forward all emails" and never logging into their secure email inbox. In that case, you're negating the advantage of the encryption.
are thy for free or paid when using the email address
Nice video.
Thanks, Michal.
Proton Calendar would be good if they would just add a search feature.
Startmail asked me for payment so not free - You implied that startmail is free by saying that you get unlimited aliases, the other services only offer in the paid version. I am looking at startmail that has free 7 day trial, but you have to pay after that, this is trial only. You did get me to look at them :/ good video by the way.
Thanks, Darrell. I don't believe I ever said that StartMail is free, and in the description of this video I clearly state that they offer a 7-day trial, whereas the others have a free tier. I'm sorry you felt misled here.
These are paid features, any advice on free email accounts?
Thanks Josh! As a side question, does anyone know if a closed-source email is safer than an open-sourced email? Does it matter?
open source means you can see the code of the app/program, closed source is the opposite.
@@sldicy thank you 🙏
with the open source, even if the company who runs it goes out of business
you can easily use the code in your server to run the service and backup everything to another provider
What about Skiff and Fast mail
What are your thoughts on The Helm email server?
Sorry, never heard of it.
Nevermind. They are shutting down. Thanks COVID
is starter mail free not monthly payment everytime i look at these email videos that are suecure all ways a payment method i wish there was a free .
You can get a limited Proton Mail account for free.
What size attachments? and what are the costs? Proton email is free isn't it? Nice video, I didn't know startmail was an email provider. I use their search engine sometimes. Thanks
Costs vary, but I believe all of these options have a free version with limited storage. That also means you can try any one of these for free to see if you like it, and they’re all pretty cheap on a monthly basis. Storage amount is different for each one.
I have been using protonmail for free for several years now.
I considered using ProtonMail as my primary mail (switching from hotmail), and I do like the app and user interface. But I am a bit worried about losing all my emails if I some day should need a password reset. Should I ever need to? - no. But "what if" sticks in my brain.
As far as I understand it, I can reset my password, and still access my account, but I get a new encryption key, and thus can no longer access my old emails, because the key doesn't match anymore.
Exactly right. And that's part of the risk of controlling your own keys (as opposed to having Gmail as your benevolent overlord).
A couple ideas: 1) you could do a quarterly or yearly backup of your email or 2) you could make sure to store your password/backup 2FA in another location.
@@AllThingsSecured Yeah ... I'm still considering if I should move to it :) ... most of my old emails, I don't actually need as such. It is more a what if, and then I can't get hold of something important.
@@AllThingsSecured And thanks for the ideas ;)
@@TempestDK You need to set recovery phrase on your current session, and save it somewhere safe place. And you are good to go , if any chance you forget your password or want reset you can , but your old mails will be in encrypted form, just you need your recovery key to decrypt the same and now you've the access of old mails
@@Abhi-bh5sq yeah i got an email from them explaining it. So no reason to not switch 🤘😊
You never stated if the calendars offered by mailfence or protonmail are secure.
How can this work if you receive a e-mail from a g-mail account.
You can't encrypt email that is being sent to you (although you can open it in a secured environment). You can, however, encrypt email that you send to Gmail accounts.
Used to love proton but they are WEF partners ans swiss beast system should tell u all
Is it safe to self host our own day to day usage email server like Citadel etc ..
Sure, as long as you know how to protect your server and connect to it securely.
@@AllThingsSecured Thanks For the Help
I used a secure key when they first came out, paid a lot of money, then they obsoleted them, I was left out and have not trusted them since.
Which secure key did you get that become obsolete?
Unfortunately there are only paid secure emails. (I know that those give us a free account, but 1gb its just for test purpose)
Now that Proton has implemented security keys I wonder if you still feel that Tutanota is still the best for whom security is their top priority...?
Tutanota is still an excellent option. But personally I use ProtonMail.
Proton Mail CEO Andy Yen, Founder and is from Taiwan. Whether or not that counts as Chinese is a matter of opinion of course. Proton 's this answer makes it more suspicious. Andy Yen is CEO, but Wei Sun as a cofounder is a Chinese from China.
So let me get this straight: because Andy Yen has an Asian background - even if he was educated and lives in the west - that makes him and his company untrustworthy, regardless of his personal beliefs or how the company is run?
That, my friend, is straight up racism.
Being illiterate in anything tech, where can I find someone to set up my devices and teach me how they work , to the highest level of security that I can manage? These videos are wonderful but the memory issues I have make it difficult to hold it all together and implement.
Hey Josh. What do you think about gmx? I have 2 email addresses with gmx and so far they seem a bit more secure and private than Gmail or outlook, etc. So far I really like it but I'd like to know your thoughts on gmx please
I'm sure it's not a bad email platform, but if it's "free" and "ad-supported", then it's really no different than Gmail. Not worse, really, but also not better per se.
Proton and mailfence. Awesome. Would love to see an iOS / Android app for mailfence
Agreed, although it seems to work fine as a responsive web app on my phone. Have you tried that?
@@AllThingsSecured yes. Been using mailfence for years, and as you described it looks a little old / outdated UI, maybe if it got a dedicated app, fancy bells and whistles would follow. 😁
Ah yes, that makes sense 😂
We plan on releasing an iOS/Android app! Stay tuned ;)
Proton mail is a sell out tho that logging info and giving the info to the government
Why Protonmail Is Not Safe For Privacy And E-Mail Security
I think the most secured mail in the world, is Microsoft Outlook, without a password, so for login you need to plug a physical USB in your PC
Is this also not kind of dangarous? I mean this makes such communication ways a perfect and popular match for criminals and blackmailers, as there is no chance of judicial tracking against them.
Fastmail also accepts hardware 2FA keys, e.g. Yubico
Thanks for sharing! I honestly haven't used Fastmail, so I'm not familiar (although I've heard a lot of good things about them).
@@AllThingsSecured That's the comparison I am really looking for, FastMail vs Mailfence.
Can you explain what is the privacy concern with using a PIM (e.g. Thunderbird) on your personal desktop? I'll give an example: ProtonMail, you must use their bridge application to connect to your account and relay your mail through their own encrypted protocol (in a 2fa supported manner), only then do you connect thunderbird to the bridge application locally via the standard ssl encrypted protocols. Again that's local on the device itself. Obviously if your PC is compromised, all bets are off...and that same holds true with the webinterface and session token attacks. I trust my local network, same reason why some crazy people run their own email service. If I could, in an economic manner, local would be the ultimate ideal privacy solution. So, again, where is the privacy concern?
Thanks for the feedback, Joshua. For the average user, the proper setup of this encrypted connection between your email provider and email client is often too much. I'm also considering the fact that we're adding yet another "link" in the security chain where there is so much unknown. Has the user encrypted their hard drive? Do they lock their computer?
If you can confidently set up the bridge application and secure the device that stores your email archive, then my privacy concerns are mostly nothing. But I'm speaking to the "average" user here, and I think sometimes the simplest answer (accessing a web-based mail client) are often the best.
@@AllThingsSecured Thank you for responding back! That makes sense, and is certainly true enough. I was worried there was something else I wasn't considering.
Skiff!
Runbox is great if you don't need a cell phone app. You get 100 free aliases.
I haven’t used that one before.
you hear about ctemplar??? i want to tried this email provider
I haven’t heard about them at all. Sorry.
@@AllThingsSecured don't worry is not very well known, doesn't even have a Wikipedia page
Yes, but you need an invite to try them. They also lost a lot of data a year or two ago. Plus there is talk that the guy running it is a little sketchy...
@@cheetahman859 oh i dint know about that
Doesnt Google also use 2FA?
Yes, but 2FA only secures your login, it's not an encryption for your actual mail that is sitting on the Google servers.
@@AllThingsSecured ah I see. Thank you for clarifying
No kiero nada ni trabajar estoy jubilada mayor 75 años lla estoy bien gracias
While Germany supposedly has strict data protection laws and the GDPR- General Data Protection Regulation, it is still a part of the Fourteen eyes surveillance alliance. And basically there is no real protection because it cancels out those protection laws. So it makes me wonder if Tutanota is really that safe.
If these encrypted email companies really use zero-knowledge encryption, it shouldn't matter, right?
@@AllThingsSecured If it doesn't matter, why did you bring up the countries and list Germany as if it was an important feature?
@@Russellkhan Because it's neither US, UK nor Australia.
Maybe I don’t get it. What do you think about Duck Duck Go?
I like it, but it's very different. Duck Duck Go is a search engine. What I'm talking about here are encrypted email providers. Basically a more secure alternative to Gmail or Yahoo.
What about AOL
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I have used Tutanota for years. I find it useful but has two weaknesses - less than stellar custom service and search function is not good. In fact it barely works at all. Please do a detailed comparison in a medium (blog?) that requires a longer attention span and text plus charts rather than RUclips. I like your channel I just don't like the medium (RUclips). Oh, and I as about to thank you for not being commercially-affiliated with any of these companies. Cancel that. Affiliate links so how can I trust you to be brutal honest?
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Basically, none of the four guarantee full privacy