Is It Worth Switching To Encrypted Email And Messaging? — With Andy Yen

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Andy Yen is the CEO of Proton, the maker of encrypted email service ProtonMail. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the merits of encryption, why his service has doubled over the past two years, and whether it’s something we actually need. This episode gets into a fun debate, covering both the pros and cons of the movement. If you like Big Technology Podcast, please rate it five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.
0:06.2	Join me every week for captivating stories and research to find more fulfillment in your work and personal life.
0:11.8	Listen to Every Day Better on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:17.2	LinkedIn Presents.
0:34.9	Thank you. LinkedIn Presents Welcome to Big Technology podcast, a show for cool-headed.
0:39.5	We want a conversation of the tech world and beyond. So why isn't all of our online communication encrypted? I mean, there are some good reasons not to do it,
0:44.1	especially when it comes to things like online safety, but also maybe we've gotten just a bit
0:48.7	too comfortable with letting companies and governments just kind of look through all of our
0:53.0	most private conversations.
0:54.8	So it's end 2020. Let's bring on Andy Yen. He's the CEO of Proton, which makes the
1:00.2	encrypted email service Proton mail. And it's a product that's expanding, actually, into things
1:05.0	like docs and calendar, wink, wink, Google. And it's also seen its user base basically double
1:10.5	over the past few years,
1:12.4	past two years, really. So as you listen, I would ask you to consider, why would we want this?
1:17.3	Why would we want an encrypted email service? What are the benefits that we have from it?
1:22.1	What are the benefits we get for keeping everything open? It's not an easy interview.
1:26.6	It's pretty tough, actually.
1:27.9	And I didn't just want to let Andy walk into the end zone.
1:30.2	But I think by pressing them a little bit, we really start to put these arguments for encryption
1:35.4	to the test.
1:36.1	And hopefully, by the time you finish listening, you'll come away with a better understanding
1:39.9	of where this push and where this movement is and whether we should get on board or not.
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