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Can the police trace someone using ProtonMail to send emails to leak information?

Protonmail appears to be available to run over Tor. This adds a layer of security by helping to mask the originating IP of any packets sent over the network you are using.Using tor would make it extremely difficult, but not impossible to trace.According to the company, even they don't have the ability to decrypt your mail which is sent to other protonmail users, so it would be useless even if given to police.“Zero Access to User DataYour encrypted data is not accessible to usProtonMail's zero access architecture means that your data is encrypted in a way that makes it inaccessible to us. Data is encrypted on the client side using an encryption key that we do not have access to. This means we don't have the technical ability to decrypt your messages, and as a result, we are unable to hand your data over to third parties. With ProtonMail, privacy isn't just a promise, it is mathematically ensured. For this reason, we are also unable to do data recovery. If you forget your password, we cannot recover your data.”It does allow you to send to users in plain text. That's a warning that you should be careful not to do this.A bonus is that any sort of cooperation with police has to go through Swiss courts. That adds a bit of a legal monkey wrench to any police trying to get warrants. I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds very good. Think Swiss bank account! Again they have made it so even they cannot decrypt it. Besides that Tor gave them a phony IP address anyway.Read this!Why Switzerland? - ProtonMail BlogYou should first either configure a tor-compatible browser or just download tor-browser and setup your tor connection.Using that browser, create a protonmail account. This way your real originating IP never accessed proton mail. Proton mail says they don't log IPs anyway, but why not be paranoid,This is a link that has protonmail’s onion site. You'll see it in the middle of the page. Using the tor browser, go to Tor Hidden Service and click the link to the onion site to setup the account.Use the tor browser any time you want to access proton mail. I would probably also use a bootable USB installation of Linux with a Virtual machine of the same,to set up tor so that any files or other BS associated with your activities never existed on your every day computer. But that's just me.

What made Gmail unique when it was first launched? What are the things that distinguished it from other competitors?

A couple of reasons that made Gmail insanely great at launch were based on how radically different, new or ahead (better) they were when compared to any existing player:Data storage - Hotmail, Yahoo and all other major email providers were still circling the 2-5 MB data storage limit range. Enter Gmail with their 1 GB storage limit - which was a quantum jump over the competition. They took it a step further, where you could save all your mail (like the real world) and not choose what letters you would like to keep and not keep - and when you needed it you could just "search" for it - which was a big deal back then.Significantly faster response - When the team at Google was working on Gmail, like Google's search engine, speed was again key. The interface was light, and had no image/flash based ads keep it quick and easy to load. Simple theory - it was clean; it was simple; it worked!Conversation View - This is probably one of the core gmail experiences that was directly visible to the end-user. Conversation-view let users explore emails that were spread over any time period and still maintain the train of thought connected to a thread.Spam Filtering - Gmail had a significantly better Spam Filter. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail (both used by me at the time) always had relevant mail in the Spam Folder and vice-versa.Invites - This was the one final social boost they got during the launch. Gmail was rolled out to new users in phases for obvious product testing and scalability related reasons. However, in the user world, getting a gmail account was cool. Unlike social networks, your friends didn't need to be on it for them to know you were on it. You could show off your gmail id, and how you have access to all these cool services - "Yeah... Just write down my id... its xyz@gmail.com" :P. Initially, Gmail was invite only. And then you could invite only 5 of your friends - which was later increased to 50 before it was finally removed. This led to a great sense of exclusivity. (They tried to replicate a similar model during the launch of Google Wave and Google+, but didn't quite work out for them.)

What are some lesser known Gmail tips?

Just found out about this little nifty gmail feature found on google Gmail that will be useful to many Quora members:Quote:Using your Gmail address that can give you greater control over your inbox and save you some time and headache. When you choose a Gmail address, you actually get more than just "yourusername@gmail.com." Here are two different ways you can modify your Gmail address and still get your mail:Append a plus ("+") sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.Insert one or several dots (".") anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn't recognize periods as characters in addresses -- we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com. (We understand that there has been some confusion about this in the past, but to settle it once and for all, you can indeed receive mail at all the variations with dots.)For me, the real value in being able to manipulate your email address is that it makes it really easy to filter on those variants. For example you could use hikingfan+bank@gmail.com when you sign up for online banking and then set up a filterto automatically star, archive or label emails addressed to hikingfan+bank.You can also use this when you register for a service and think they might share your information. For example, I added "+donation" when I gave money to a political organization once, and now when I see emails from other groups to that address, I know how they got it. Solution: filtered to auto-delete.—————————————————————————————————————More nifty online business ideas plus some of the best online money making businesses that work, check out my profileNigel Clarkson