My hopes were high, design-wise, because ProtonMail’s website looks so sharp. So before I ran off to recommend that everyone sign up for ProtonMail, I decided to sign up for one first, and goad my friend Lexi into signing up with me so we could send weird test emails back and forth.

I often find, however, that practical tools with their foot in the nerd-o-sphere are, for lack of a better term, ugly. But only if they have your private decryption key. And their primary data center, by the way, is located “under 1000 meters of granite rock in a heavily guarded bunker which can survive a nuclear attack.” After someone destroys us all, the bionic mutated cockroaches that succeed us as denizens of the world will be able to check your email. Your emails never live on a mutually owned cloud, either-all ProtonMail servers in Switzerland, all the time. And because the company AND its servers are all located in Switzerland, the only government entities that can compel the ProtonMail to disclose data are the Cantonal Courts of Geneva or the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. That way, should the company ever be compelled to turn your email over to any government, they won’t know how to unscramble that data and put it back to something readable. When you create an account, you choose a password that only you have-ProtonMail doesn’t store it and it can’t be reset like other passwords can.

For one, messages stored on the server are encrypted such that not even company employees can decrypt them. Mostly what’s being talked about in coverage of ProtonMail is that security. This email service, created by CERN and MIT scientists and based entirely in Switzerland, uses a combination of end-to-end encryption and Swiss law to protect its users’ information. ProtonMail just came out of beta this week - and they released both iOS and Android apps.

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