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I know it may be nitpicking or just pedantic, but they say on their page "Your data also never goes to the cloud, as we own and manage our own server infrastructure." But...if you upload your data to their servers (so it can go to all your devices), isn't that the "cloud"?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cloud%20computing
It's amazing how many new products Proton manages to make while still barely supporting their VPN on Linux. On the one hand, nice work proton team. On the other, you lost a VPN customer today.
Just a thought, maybe their linux market share is just negligible? If it's not a worthwhile investment of resources, why do it?
Wouldn't $linuxuser just not simply install something like keypass w/o having to pay for anything? How many services/apps is the average linux user paying for?
I have used linux for ages before I moved to maco. So my bet is: not much. Why then, as a company, would I try to get people to give me money when they are used to getting stuff for free? And would rather tinker with some half-arsed solution (on average) instead of paying $5 per month?
Maybe sentiment has shifted since I was around. Maybe it was the Arch crowd. But my impression was: "I want it free as in free beer and open".
I know it may be nitpicking or just pedantic, but they say on their page "Your data also never goes to the cloud, as we own and manage our own server infrastructure." But...if you upload your data to their servers (so it can go to all your devices), isn't that the "cloud"?
I think in general one might consider "the cloud" to be virtual resources on hardware shared with third parties. So of course AWS/GCP/Azure, but DigitalOcean would probably also qualify since to my knowledge droplets are virtual servers on shared hardware. Although renting virtual resources on shared hardware can be convenient (much easier to provision virtual resources than real servers), there are a couple of drawb…
With Bitwarden supporting passkeys soon[0] is there any announcement from Proton that they would as well? Seems odd to release a password manager at this time and not mention at least eventually supporting WebAuth/FIDO2/passwordless. 1Password, Google, Apple, and likely Microsoft are all going to be having some level of passkey management. For middle of 2023, it seems like at least a good feature to mention is going…
My main concerns are - Can I host / store my own vaults? Are the apps native (not electron)? What are the browser plugins like with autofill of secrets, identity, payment information etc…?
Is this available on proton for business too?
Wasn't there some article or something claiming that this company was a NSA honeypot or something? Or am I imagining that.
You might be thinking of https://encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-facts-about-protonmail/ edit: I'd like to inject a reminder that protonmail doesn't encrypt all of your mailbox contents. From their privacy policy: "we have access to the following email metadata: sender and recipient email addresses, the IP address incoming messages originated from, attachment name, message subject, and message sent and received times"
No no local syncing so my password data never has to touch a computer I don't own? Pass, uninteresting product.
It grinds my gears when password managers bundle 2FA/MFA without pointing out how this weakens the security of it, or discussing mitigations. "Proton Pass makes 2FA easier with an integrated authenticator that stores your 2FA codes and automatically displays and autofills them." Is it really multiple factor auth if you're using the same device for the password and automatically filling in the token? It's not a unique…
Btw, the thing you mention for Proton Drive is only for files which are shared publicly. For sure the audit results are not perfect when viewed in isolation, but when compared to other password managers, it's another story.