If you run your own agents, you've probably locked down the obvious parts. Keys in a vault, storage you control, a model you can check. Then every password reset, API key and billing alert still lands in a free inbox paid for by ads.
That inbox is the widest door in the house. Privacy, to me, means fewer doors left open. So my mail, files and passwords live on Proton.
Proton: one account for mail, files & passwords
Proton is a privacy suite based in Geneva, Switzerland: Mail, Drive, Pass, VPN, Calendar and more under one login. It started in 2014 with a team of scientists who met at CERN. Its primary shareholder is the nonprofit Proton Foundation, and it has no venture capital investors.
Your data is stored with zero-access encryption, so Proton can't read it. End-to-end encryption and password-protected emails come on every plan, the free one included.
Every Proton app is open source and independently audited. You don't have to take their word for any of this. You can read the code.
If you want an AI assistant on the same terms, Proton's Lumo keeps no logs of your chats, uses zero-access encryption, and doesn't use your chats to train its models.
Moving over at your own pace
Easy Switch moves your email from Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and other providers into Proton Mail. Bring the old inbox over, then update your accounts one at a time.
Two weeks free through my link
If you're new to Proton, sign up through my link and pick an eligible plan, such as Mail Plus, Drive Plus or Pass Plus. You get a two-week free trial with no payment info until it ends. If you subscribe, we both get $20 in Proton credit once you've been subscribed a full month (two months on a monthly plan).
The model can draft. The disk has to be yours, and so does the inbox. The Captain still checks.
Links
- Proton, two-week trial
- How Proton's referral program works
- Proton's open source code and audits
- Easy Switch
- Lumo
The Proton signup links above use my referral link.
Top comments (1)
Most of us lock down keys, storage, & models, then leave the inbox for last.
If someone took over your email tomorrow, how many of your agent accounts could they reset before you noticed?