Not only do they not address the technical aspects of the paper, their response starts with a direct personal attack:
"It seems Nadim (the author of this paper) took it really badly when we called him out for intentionally spreading fake news this weekend." [1]
That's really low. The beautiful thing about computers is that we can prove each others right or wrong with technical arguments. If ProtonMail thinks Nadim has a personal grudge against them, wouldn't it be beautiful for them to disprove him with another professionally written paper as Nadim did? They can't.
Also, I think Nadim knows more than anyone the dangers of pushing weak products and marketing them as secure. It happened to him with Cryptocat. It's a thing that can harm reputation and also harm users, Nadim went through that and I believe he has good intentions by presenting this paper.
"It seems Nadim (the author of this paper) took it really badly when we called him out for intentionally spreading fake news this weekend." [1]
That's really low. The beautiful thing about computers is that we can prove each others right or wrong with technical arguments. If ProtonMail thinks Nadim has a personal grudge against them, wouldn't it be beautiful for them to disprove him with another professionally written paper as Nadim did? They can't.
Also, I think Nadim knows more than anyone the dangers of pushing weak products and marketing them as secure. It happened to him with Cryptocat. It's a thing that can harm reputation and also harm users, Nadim went through that and I believe he has good intentions by presenting this paper.
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[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/9yqxkh/an_analy...