I'm semi-confused. If I have Express VPN on my Router, why do I need separate email protection? My outlook email goes through the router hence the VPN. (I change servers about once a week between NJ, NY and DC.
I've pretty much decided we are going to start moving all of our emails to Proton at some point, therefore it looks like their VPN is where we'll go to.
I'm trying to figure out how to start with the initial set up in order not to leave too big a footprint.
When you sign up for the VPN, you create a username that follows you everywhere within Proton, even if you don't have an email with them yet.
If we both go over to them for email, I'd love to have access to different accounts for different purposes, i.e. professional/personal, then one for MDS, etc.
If I put my name on the master username, that could become my professional/personal email account on Proton, which I think is appropriate to have my name on.
Am I over thinking that with the secure email, differentiation of accounts for stuff like MDS and then the VPN I shouldn't be worried if the master username is my real name?
I'm semi-confused. If I have Express VPN on my Router, why do I need separate email protection? My outlook email goes through the router hence the VPN. (I change servers about once a week between NJ, NY and DC.
I'd be interested in your tutorial. You are a braniac in all things tech my friend. I have a paid account and the plan was (still is) to subdivide the account so my wife has one too. It's been awhile since I looked at it so I can't remember the terminology but you have to create something in order to be able to let others have addresses. I can't figure out how to do that. I know reading this will mean nothing until you start getting it set up for anyone other than yourself but then it will be obvious what I'm referring to. I'm no Luddite but sometimes it feels that way.
Tutorial might take a long while. Last night I tried to collect a list of all companies/websites where my registered email was either Gmail, hotmail or yahoo. My gmail account is used like s file cabinet where I’ve saved thousands of personal business related messages. Foolishly I have a folder called “Account Info”. Well if that isn’t a welcome mat for a cyber criminal, then i don’t know what is. I guess the one bright side is that I used that folder along with my saved passwords in my chrome browser and on my phone to populate my master list of email registrations I should consider migrating to proton.
Shockingly it’s over 300 items long.
Some of them were only used one time, maybe to just buy something online. This might be half the list. I spend hours last evening simply trying to de-register and close unused accounts, in order to pare down then number of accounts that really need to be migrated to the new email.
Another thing this list made me realize was that my password strategy SUCKS. I thought I was being clever using a combination of short phrases, numbers and special characters for each site, but while examining the list in it’s entirety I can see it would still be intuitively easy for someone to at least form an educated guess if they had any hint of the scheme I was using. So I this needs to get fixed too.
The VPN essentially block the details of your network activities from your ISP. It doesn’t specifically protect your email communication. There are two potential weakness from using services like Yahoo, Google or Hotmail. Those services have full access to the metadata (who, what, where and when) and the actual content of your messages. Your are vulnerable if some third party successfully hacks the google servers and can access your personal information. None of your information is encrypted. This can all happen outside of your own home network, meaning your VPN has no impact. Using a service like Protonmail protects you the following ways. First your messages and the content of our stored information is totally encrypted. The Proton team has no access to that information and could not even access it if they wanted to, unless they had your actual password. Second when you send an email from proton to another proton user that message is 100% encrypted from end to end. So the content of your messages cannot be intercepted and read by anyone else.
My email is through Comcast.
KeePass is your friend.
You can maintain separate databases for work and personal.
I’m realizing this. My iphone has the ability to generate long random passwords but I think I’m going to go with Bitwarden which works with iPhone too.
My email is through Comcast.
Bitwarden also works with DUO 2FA and I already use that app for other logins.
I don’t know Bitwarden, but it’s open source which is a good sign. KeePass has apps for iOS and android, and supports time based 2FA. I’ve been using it for 5 or 6 years now and it has not given me a reason to change.
One of the nice features of full password managers is it also functions as my bookmark catalog instead of housing that information on the browser. Easy search function and keyboard shortcut to open the desired web page.
I've pretty much decided we are going to start moving all of our emails to Proton at some point, therefore it looks like their VPN is where we'll go to.
I'm trying to figure out how to start with the initial set up in order not to leave too big a footprint.
When you sign up for the VPN, you create a username that follows you everywhere within Proton, even if you don't have an email with them yet.
If we both go over to them for email, I'd love to have access to different accounts for different purposes, i.e. professional/personal, then one for MDS, etc.
If I put my name on the master username, that could become my professional/personal email account on Proton, which I think is appropriate to have my name on.
Am I over thinking that with the secure email, differentiation of accounts for stuff like MDS and then the VPN I shouldn't be worried if the master username is my real name?
I have a question about payment. My reason for setting up a free Proton mail account was to have some personal identity protection. Now I am seriously considering doing like Norton and just paying for the service and simply stop using gmail/hotmail/yahoo.
However is it still possible to remain somewhat a anonymous with a paid account?
Do any of you recommend trying to pay for ProtonMail/VPN anonymously? I setup a Privacy.com virtual credit card using my real name, but I don’t think you have to use your real name when creating the virtual credit cards.
Is this something that I shouldn’t worry about and just my debit card?
I don’t know Bitwarden, but it’s open source which is a good sign. KeePass has apps for iOS and android, and supports time based 2FA. I’ve been using it for 5 or 6 years now and it has not given me a reason to change.
One of the nice features of full password managers is it also functions as my bookmark catalog instead of housing that information on the browser. Easy search function and keyboard shortcut to open the desired web page.
Debit card, hell no. Go buy a VISA or MC card with cash at a store not near you and use that to sign up.
On Friday, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court upheld Proton’s appeal against the Swiss Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service (PTSS) over obligations to store data and monitor email traffic. The court confirmed that email services can’t be considered telecommunications providers in Switzerland, and therefore are not subject to data retention requirements.