[adeleine]

I think that using ProtonMail Bridge defeats the purpose of using ProtonMail in the first place. At this point there is no real difference to other hosts, except that the emails themselves are encrypted on ProtonMail's servers.

Now you are using another email client that you have to take care of its security yourself, and besides, anyone who has access to your machine will have access to your email when you turn on Bridge and open your email client. A big part of Protonmail is that these emails are not "stored" (cached, whatever) on your machine.

[dier]

i disagree. more of my data has been compromised due to attacks/leaks/etc on the host than has been compromised due to someone having access to my machine.

[adeleine]

I can't quite figure out what you disagree about. I stated that 1) ProtonMail Bridge makes things less secure and vulnerable 2) that I think it defeats the purpose of using ProtonMail in the first place 3) that you have to worry about the security of another software with ProtonMail Bridge.

I think you're saying that you're more likely to be compromised because of the host, and this is where I'm confused, because I didn't claim that you're more likely to be compromised by someone having access to your machine.

[_8j50]

How much you trust the email provider for security (not get pwned or malicious insider), privacy and more than all that reliability and availability is the major difference. That aside they all do have features the others don't as well as different support and user experience.