A group of MIT and Harvard students is creating the most secure email system ever

[Guest Brad Reed]

Ever since Lavabit shut itself down last year, several different new alternatives have been proposed for people who want a truly secure email system that can't be accessed by government agencies such as the NSA. BostInno reports that a team of students from Harvard and MIT are banding together to create a new email service called ProtonMail that they say will be more secure than Lavabit and won't be hackable by the NSA or other spy agencies. Not only does this new email service offer end-to-end encryption but it's also based in Switzerland, where it won't have to comply with American courts' demands to hand over user data. The service launched as a public beta last week after spending two weeks before as an invitation-only private beta. Anyone will be able to use ProtonMail to a limited extent for free, although the students say that "power users" will have to pay $5 a month to use the service.

 

 

Via BRG - Boy Genius Report