#electronmail — Public Fediverse posts

@alternativeto https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail is a great unofficial Desktop app for Proton Mail. It's a libra(fLOSS) application, and you can use it with PM's free tier.

#floss #foss #libra #opensource #protonmail #encryption #email #electronmail

#Protonmail (whose microblogging presence is limited to Elon Musk’s assets) has become quite a burden in the past couple yrs. #Hydroxide is broken, thus pushing us to use the web client (because #Electronmail is broken too), and the web client periodically pushes a CAPTCHA. So it’s a game of trying to login as infrequently as possible, yet if too much time passes your acct is dead.

@thatbrickster @orekix @Hyolobrika @inference The flaw with #Protonmail is that it relies on on-the-fly #JavaScript. A smart user can use #Electronmail or #hydroxide to counter the threat of malicious JS, but then when Protonmail pushes their #CAPTCHA things get dicey.

@dsfgs @pj The only control for that scenario is for the user to run a client that bundles in audited JS. #Electronmail demonstrates that scenario. Since #Protonmail will comply with Swiss court orders, you wouldn’t want to visit protonmail.ch from just any browser and download the JS dynamically if Swiss courts are in your threat model. You'd want to download Electronmail anonymously.

@ataraxia937
Yikes - gmail is the worst possible choice. It has no public key crypto & #Google has mastered monetizing data. A small operation like #Protonmail couldn't monetize the data to the extent that google does even if they tried.

Note as well that #Electronmail solves the s/w problem. It's a #freesoftware MUA for Protonmail that you can audit & doesn't require you to trust PM's on-the-fly non-free #javascript.

@cadadr