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ProtonMail on Mr. Robot
A few weeks back, we had hundreds of people informing us via
Twitter that ProtonMail was being used by Elliot Alderson from this
summer’s hit TV show, Mr. Robot. With the highly anticipated
season finale airing tomorrow (8/26/2015), we are finally able to share
the backstory behind how ProtonMail ended up in Mr. Robot.
ProtonMail was featured in Season 1 of Mr. Robot as the
email service used by the main character, Elliot. While the email
service used by Elliot might seem like a minor detail, the intensive
discussions between our team and the Mr. Robot production team goes to highlight the extreme lengths the Mr. Robot producers have gone for realism.
We have seen many TV shows over the years try to depict hacking in one form or another. We can definitively conclude that Mr. Robot has some of the most realistic portrayals we have ever seen. A large part of our work in building the worlds most secure email service is indeed guarding against hacks of all kind so we have, you could say, some experience in this area.
When the team from Mr. Robot approached us in June, we were
quite surprised that they had gone to the lengths of researching secure
email services that a character like Elliot would use. This is, after
all, a tiny detail that they could have ignored. More surprising though
was that they had researched and understood the technical
differentiators that make ProtonMail far more secure than other
“encrypted” email services. It is hard enough to find people in
Hollywood who understand email encryption (looking at you Sony), much
less end-to-end encryption. The amount of research they had done was simply astounding.
The story gets far more interesting. Over the course of our discussions with the Mr. Robot
team, they mentioned that a security focused person like Elliot would
need a way to monitor his own email activity and they asked if this was
something ProtonMail supported. Well, we do support this now, you can
find the addition of monitoring (logging) in our latest 2.0 release. That’s right, the Mr. Robot
team got so deep into their research that they made a product
suggestion so good we built it for the hundreds of thousands of security
conscious people who use our service.
Elliot Alderson, the main character of Mr. Robot, using ProtonMail’s new email access log system in season 1 episode 8
This might be the first recorded case of Hollywood understanding
cyber security and privacy so well they influence the development of
security software. This attention to detail sets Mr. Robot apart from anything else on TV these days.
If you want to read more about ProtonMail on Mr. Robot, you can also check out this story on Wired which also features the rest of Elliot’s toolkit. We cannot reveal any details yet, but fans of ProtonMail and Mr. Robot will be happy to know that ProtonMail will be returning to season two of Mr. Robot.