Allow login username to be different from email and aliases
You can effectively make your login username a barrier from even giving hackers a starting point to get into your account. Since with this feature they would need to know your username first. This should squash any determine hacker and allow great protection to long term protonmail accounts for years to come. Thoughts of "working on hacking this account may take time" is diminished wouldnt ya say?
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Evil Spider commented
I can see this idea has been shared multiple times over the years explaining its importance, I have no idea why Proton team is not bothering to consider this or atleast respond on it.
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Matt commented
Please give us this or explain why its unimportant
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Paul commented
This is a critical security issue. Even a free outlook account doesn't have this flaw
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adnsdklrearmöa commented
Why does Proton spent time on a "Sentinel program" for better protection against account takeover, while this super obvious one (IT IS 8 YEARS OLD!!) is not implemented..?! It is in the best intrest of you to generally be "less of a target" in the first place!!
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mih commented
Please consider this
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Austin commented
I'm disappointed after purchasing Proton Unlimited that I can log in with any email. This seems like a significant security issue.
A global setting to "only allow login with default email" should be developed.
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mih commented
This should be implemented
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ohoh commented
I would like to have this as well, since it helps a little to avoid anybody even trying to log into your account, because they wouldn't even know what email you are using, because none of the ones that you use for emails would work.
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Someone commented
A basic privacy and security thing to do would be to not give away any login credential information to anyone...
But of course if everytime we send an email (main address or not) we also send half of our login credential to the recipients, then something have failed in the whole idea to create a private and secure service!
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Sanguide commented
That's exactly what I thought the premium plan with 15 mail-adresses would provide. I kept my mail-accounts seperate for security reasons, however it would be much more handy to have one login which is secured properly and provides several mail-aliases which can't be accessed from "outside".
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Tillmann commented
Totally agree!
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Michael Richards commented
I've just set up two new addresses on the phone app, and it seems rather unwieldy to actually see them all on there. Not sure what's going on.
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Michael Richards commented
This would be extremely useful. You only need one way in, and it doesn't even need to be one you send email from. Having all of them active merely provides more attack surfaces.
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Remi commented
We don't need more doors to access into our account.
It would be awesome if we can choose 1 email or username only to login.
Which most of us would most likely have something different to the ones that are given out to the world. (whether its willingly or unwillingly) -
CG commented
I would suggest having the ability to disable sign in from all alias or only allow sign in from the Account Username. Similar to Microsoft. This reduces the ability for someone with an Alias to attempt to hack an account. The reason I want alias' is to separate emails for shopping, dining, bill pay and entertainment. These alias I don't need them to login and frankly I don't want them to log in. they are often sold without notice. I don't want to publish to the outside world what I use to log into proton mail.
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Tom commented
If we could only login through an alias which nobody else knows and have the password just in our memory, our email account becomes virtually impervious, save for vulnerabilities on the product itself. Please make this happen Proton team!
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Enrico commented
+1
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hannah commented
This is an important feature much like what Microsoft office already offers.
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Lars commented
+1
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Dave commented
100% agree, and I can't believe that it hasn't been implemented already! It would really add a lot of value and security to Protonmail's offering