An option to lock down Drive access on computer
In addition to Proton Drive, I have a premium pCloud account with their encryption option.
If Proton Drive provides a secured online storage with encrypted transfers and encryption at rest, pCloud Encryption provides in addition a mechanism which allows locking the local vault on the computer for sensitive documents.
Sure the computer session has a password but it would be nice to see such a complimentary option for Drive. I believe pCloud opens up some sort of virtual network drive. I don't know if Proton Drive does the same thing and if the current implementation would enable this.
The Proton Pass extension does offer the ability to setup a pin code.
Guillaume
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Denza
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Support. It would be great if Proton Drive had the ability to block access to the "Proton Drive" folder in Explorer and, in general, to the application itself. For example, an additional PIN code for access to the application. As soon as the application is blocked (due to any of the configured conditions), access to the folder is also blocked. This is especially true if the device is compromised (stolen, etc.) and at least the user will have time to cancel the authorization session in the application while the PIN code is being selected.
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RAS
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The title is self-explanatory. I don't know if that's extra paranoid, but, as it happens to most of us I think, say one forgets to log out from Proton services one a shared device, it would be great to have the extra sensitive data be protected by yet another layer of security.
It feels strange to have same level of access to a draft for my fortnightly writing group as well as family photos and some much more sensitive stuff.
I am aware I can encrypt the data locally before uploading it, but the inconvenience of downloading and decrypting it using a local software lets the lazier ones of us be less secure.
Note that this could apply to Proton Pass vaults as well, where one could have extra layer of security (e.g. PIN, password or anything else) to protect real identity information (ID/Passport/Address). (Or am I being extremely imprudent for having these things in the cloud?)