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Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears

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Proton, the Geneva-based encrypted email provider founded 11 years ago by three scientist who met at CERN, will freeze its investments in Switzerland, its chief executive Andy Yen told Le Temps on Wed

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I’m not well versed in encryption, can’t they just decrypt them at will? When I use their webmail I just login, I don’t provide any decryption pass
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  Yes you do, the data is encrypted with your password
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    In that case, even if they don’t have your password right now, they just need to wait until you log in the next time.

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