Proton Mail is a private email service that uses open source, independently audited end-to-end encryption and zero-access encryption to secure your communications.
To further protect your anonymity, we strongly recommend you access Proton Mail via the Tor network. When you connect to the internet via Tor, your internet is routed through a worldwide, volunteer network of relays that conceal your location and activity from anyone trying to monitor you.
Download and install the Tor browser from https://www.torproject.org. You will use the Tor browser to connect to Proton Mail in the next step.
Open the Tor browser and wait for the page that says a connection has been established. Then, copy and paste the following into the address bar:
Once you have arrived at Proton Mail, follow the steps to create a new email account that does not reference any personally identifiable information. For example, something like doublellama@proton.me would work because it does not relate to your name or any other information regarding your true identity.
With your new proton email, send your message to tips@truthwave.com.
Out of an abundance of caution, we strongly recommend that you do not use your new proton email for any purposes other than communicating with TruthWave. Additionally, do not respond to, or communicate with, any emails that do not come from truthwave.com addresses (e.g. tips@truthwave.com).
Proton Mail is a well-regarded provider in the secure communications space, trusted by news organizations and governments all over the world. However, it is ultimately a third party service provider and thus not under the control of TruthWave.
We strongly recommend reading their terms and conditions, privacy policy, and materials about their security features.
All of your communications with us via Proton Mail are end-to-end encrypted so that no one (not even Proton) can access their contents besides TruthWave. Once we receive your message, we will strip it of any metadata and redact any information that could give away your identity. Once that has been done, we will share your messages and any associated files with our investigations team.
If you have created a pseudonymous email account per our instructions above, we will not know your identity. If your name or other identifying information is included in your tip itself, we will try to redact it before sharing anything with our investigators. If you are seriously concerned about this, we highly recommend that you are careful to not include any information about your identity in your tip.
Additionally, if you use Tor to access Proton Mail according to our instructions above, neither Proton nor any outside party will be able to log your true IP address. If you do not use Tor, your IP address will be visible to Proton which could risk your anonymity. While you could use VPN to hide your IP as well, the VPN provider will have knowledge of your true IP address. Thus, we strongly encourage you to only ever access Proton Mail via the Tor browser for the purposes of communicating with TruthWave.
We also recommend that after you have read and replied to our messages, you delete them.
Proton Mail is trusted by people all over the world, utilizes many advanced security features, and goes to great lengths to protect your communications. However, like any service, its software could contain exploitable security bugs. You are ultimately using the service at your own risk.
Here are a few more links you might find useful regarding Proton Mail and the Tor network:
https://proton.me/tor
https://proton.me/blog/tor-encrypted-email
To learn more about how TruthWave handles privacy, please read our privacy policy.
