Any ProtonMail users here? I have a subscription and have been liking it a lot: aside from the encryption, the company regularly introduces great features to its service. Something that genuinely surprised me was the addition of a VPN, which is now finally past beta testing and available to everyone. Like ProtonMail, you may use it for free, but with gimped functionality: subscriptions will allow for greater speeds and more devices.
https://protonvpn.com/blog/free-vpn-service-launch/...we’re finally making ProtonVPN available to everyone. And we really mean everyone, because consistent with our mission to make privacy and security accessible to every single person in the world, we’re also releasing ProtonVPN as a free VPN service. It has been a long and exciting journey to get here since our team first met at CERN in 2013. Back then, we had an ambitious vision to build an Internet that was free and could continue to reach its full potential as a tool for social progress. Indeed, that was the vision that inspired Tim Berners-Lee to create the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtonMailProtonMail is an end-to-end encrypted email service founded in 2013 at the CERN research facility by Dr. Andy Yen, Dr. Bart Butler, Jason Stockman and Wei Sun.[2][3][4] ProtonMail uses client-side encryption to protect email contents and user data before they are sent to ProtonMail servers, in contrast to other common email providers such as Gmail and Hotmail. The service can be accessed through a webmail client or dedicated iOS and Android apps.[5]
ProtonMail is run by Proton Technologies AG, a company based in the Canton of Geneva, and its servers are located at two locations in Switzerland, outside of US and EU jurisdiction.[6] The service received initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign. The default account setup is free and the service is sustained by optional paid services. As of January 2017, ProtonMail has over 2 million users.[7] Initially invitation-only, ProtonMail opened up to the public in March 2016.
When you do VPN your essentially giving your traffic info and browsing history to this company running the VPN. Some like Private Internet Access (PIA) vpn claimed to not keep logs of your data history access, and it was indeed put to the test in an actual court of law when a users details were requested but not available due to this.
So not sure where proton vpn stands on privacy issue regarding their data retention policy. But anything free deserves some scrutiny.
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The key point is that they do not log your traffic:
ProtonVPN is a no logs VPN service. We do not track or record your internet activity, and therefore, we are unable to disclose this information to third parties.
We are headquartered in Switzerland which has some of the world's strongest privacy laws. Switzerland is also outside of EU and US jurisdiction and is not a member of the fourteen eyes surveillance network.
Written right on their front page: https://protonvpn.com/
just remember though that VPN isn't about performance, it's mostly about privacy over the internet. Some good VPN can offer performance closer to your max speeds, but i'm sure latency would still be affected somewhat.
anyway with the vpn you could then remotely access your qnap safely if all goes well as it should
i just treat those like honeypots up to no good.