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Company blog · blog.protonmail.ch/blogsecurityprogramming

Proton is the company blog at blog.protonmail.ch, writing about security and programming. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “ProtonMail is Open Source”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
11HN people?
2015–2015first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as background on the Lavaboom drama: a Proton post about a Lavaboom alternative and transition, and the bankruptcy of the encrypted email startup. Only one bare link comment.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Welcome to the official blog of Proton, where you can get the latest news about privacy and the internet.

Most-linked posts?

  1. ProtonMail is Open Source
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-18
  2. Protonmail 2.0 is opensource
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. johnchristopher · 2015-08-20
    There seems to be some kind of drama around what is going on at Lavaboom: https://blog.protonmail.ch/lavaboom-alternative-and-transiti... https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3gghyd/im_totally_...

    Comment linking /lavaboom-alternative-and-transition/

    on “Lavaboom Encrypted Email Startup Declares Bankruptcy”
  2. grammarcup · 2015-05-16

    Submitted ProtonMail: We’re upgrading all ProtonMail accounts to 1GB of storage! as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  3. eliabierii · 2015-08-17

    Submitted Protonmail 2.0 is opensource as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  4. wheelk · 2015-05-04

    Submitted What is End-to-End Encryption? as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. mostafah · 2015-08-13

    Submitted ProtonMail goes Open Source with version 2.0 as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  6. r3bl · 2015-08-26

    Submitted ProtonMail on Mr. Robot as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. jonbaer · 2015-08-18

    Submitted ProtonMail is Open Source as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Errorcod3 · 2015-05-09

    Submitted Why Privacy Is Under Attack as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. kevinpaladin · 2015-08-29

    Submitted ProtonMail Android v1.0.3 has been released as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. e12e · 2015-08-22

    Submitted ProtonMail is Open Source [webmail front-end] as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. r721 · 2015-05-31

    Submitted ProtonMail’s New Features Guide as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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