Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source
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Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source
Proton Mail is famous for its privacy and security. The cool trick they do is that not even Proton can decode your email. That’s because it never exists on their systems as plain text — it’s always…Pivot to AI
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Night_City_Nomad
in reply to David Gerard • • •The crypto wallet and email "assistant" were already suspect but I could ignore them as I used neither. I have no need or desire to use genAI so just another offering I will gladly ignore.
Paco Hope #resist
in reply to David Gerard • • •You forgot: not interesting and not useful.
Honestly, who the fuck needs ANYBODY else to provide a chatbot!? Why would I pay Proton for a chatbot? If I wanted one, I would go straight to the purveyors themselves. I don’t know why anyone thinks putting their branding on a chat bot is value add.
David Gerard
in reply to David Gerard • • •Chris Hanson
in reply to David Gerard • • •Sensitive content
David
in reply to David Gerard • • •Chris
in reply to David Gerard • • •One more company shitting on their USP to join the AI hype.
But seriously, which part of their current userbase said "yes please" when asked if they would like to have a chatbot snuffle through their unencrypted emails?
I'm guessing they either
- asked only C-levels
- worded the question somewhat less honestly
- didn't ask at all
David Gerard
in reply to Chris • • •Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’
Pivot to AIDavid P
in reply to David Gerard • • •How do I disable this permanently? Or preferably launch it, and whomever came up with this cursed idea, directly into the Sun?
@protonprivacy
FoolishOwl
in reply to David Gerard • • •I feel now like I should never have trusted Proton.
"Encrypted email" is misleading. It's encrypted at rest on their servers. But if you exchange email with anyone not on Proton, the email must be decrypted to be sent. In practice it's not really end-to-end encrypted and it can't be.
The same is true of other "encrypted email" providers.
They were deceptive to begin with.