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by ryanlol 2912 days ago
One of the PIA co-founders made a pretty convincing case that protonmail is probably not ran by a bunch of CERN researchers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
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protonmail 2912 days ago
This is completely false by the way. ProtonVPN is created by the ProtonMail team, which has many CERN scientists on staff. This is public record and can be verified by simply looking at the scientific papers they have published:

ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen (former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=Andy+Yen&of=hb&action_s...

ProtonMail CTO Bart Butler (also former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=bart+butler&of=hb...

TED Talk about ProtonMail given by ProtonMail CEO: https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_privat...

So the evidence that ProtonMail is run by former CERN researchers is actually quite overwhelming.

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sm64 2912 days ago
The argument is that ProtonVPN is run as a joint venture between Protonmail and the people who run NordVPN. It states nothing about Protonmail.
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protonmail 2912 days ago
This is also not true. ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are not related to NordVPN in any way. The only possible "connection" if you can call it that, is that we might use some of the same server providers (Leaseweb, Amazon, OVH, etc).
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