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In the summer of 2014, the German email provider Posteo faced a critical situation: it had to let the police take over its servers or fight them in the .

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The Bavarian authorities had contacted the Berlin-based startup because they wanted the identity of a Posteo account holder. But the couple, Patrik and Sabrina Löhr, a couple who run the company, told police they simply could not comply: Posteo is an anonymous email provider that does not store customer data and identities.

They were only allowed to give a list of the company's banking transactions - which they had already received from the bank.

Löhr filed a lawsuit against the police, accusing them of intimidation. This move attracted media attention and established the company's stated commitment to transparency. And of course his leaks Snowden, βοήθησαν την Posteo να γίνει ένας από τους ταχύτερα αναπτυσσόμενους παρόχους email της s.

The Germans then began to leave American email providers for Posteo. "From 10.000 subscribers before the Snowden leak immediately after the events, it became 70.000," Löhr told the Guardian at the time.

The site is offered in German and and it is not : a 2GB account starts at €12 per year.

But Posteo promises users a private email experience. Actually, the είναι το μοναδικό σημείο πώλησης της εταιρείας. Η εταιρεία δεν “διαβάζει” τα metadata στα μηνύματα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου και δεν συλλέγει τις επαφές χρηστών για την advertisements.

It does not store users' IP addresses or monitor them when they click on the web. The company also deletes the bank and card details immediately after processing the payments.

"We do not want the data of our clients, we do not want their names, their addresses, their dates of birth. And because we do not have this data, we can not lose it or be forced to give it, "say the company's managers.

In May 2014 the company became the first email provider in the world to adopt entity authentication with το DNS (DNS-based of Named Entities ή απλά Dane) στους διακομιστές της. Η τεχνολογία Dane καθιστά πολύ δύσκολο, αν όχι αδύνατο, για τους hackers ή τις κυβερνήσεις να ξεκινήσουν man-in-the-middle επιθέσεις “ψαρέματος” σε προγράμματα περιήγησης ιστού.

"We protect your metadata with encryption and Dane," says Löhr. "However, we encourage our users to encrypt their email with PGP."

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