Topic: Secure email services?? (Read 1384 times)
http://prxbx.com/email/ is a good start, I use Riseup but you need to bear in mind that a lot of activists have accounts with them so they're much more likely to be under surveillance (plus their servers got raided a while back). Encrypt everything you want to keep private.
I did some research after my government decided that the providers have one year the time to change their infrastructure so they can log following things:
- which websites you visit
- when you visit them
- who you mailed
- when you mailed
- from who you got a mail
- which hardware you used
- where you used it (when you get a call on your mobile phone, they will log the location)
- who you called
- who called you
- length of the conversation
- they log calls from landlines, mobile phones and services like skype
All these logs can be viewed by the government, police, even the institute for post and telecommunication,...
And they work together with the NSA, so I guess they will happily share everything with them too.
So in my search for a good mail provider I ended up with these 2:
www.countermail.com
riseup.net
The first one you can pay with bitcoins, and the second one accepts Bitcoin donations.
But like some pointed out, you can't be 100% sure that your privacy is safe.
But imo better try than just give it to them.
- which websites you visit
- when you visit them
- who you mailed
- when you mailed
- from who you got a mail
- which hardware you used
- where you used it (when you get a call on your mobile phone, they will log the location)
- who you called
- who called you
- length of the conversation
- they log calls from landlines, mobile phones and services like skype
All these logs can be viewed by the government, police, even the institute for post and telecommunication,...
And they work together with the NSA, so I guess they will happily share everything with them too.
So in my search for a good mail provider I ended up with these 2:
www.countermail.com
riseup.net
The first one you can pay with bitcoins, and the second one accepts Bitcoin donations.
But like some pointed out, you can't be 100% sure that your privacy is safe.
But imo better try than just give it to them.
riseup.net
I heard today to the TV that the "N$ A" normally hacks into Gmail. Does anyone know of any good secure email services?
The server you setup on your own
But still, if the email is sent in plain text, it can still be read before it arrives...
Take a look at http://prxbx.com/email/
I came here just to say this.
If anyone cares about security/privacy, they'll ignore posts like this:
IMO, Bitmessage is the best way to go right now.
Don't be ignorant.
Anything to backup your claim? It seems to be good enough for http://www.prism-break.org, why not?
Take a look at http://prxbx.com/email/
I came here just to say this.
If anyone cares about security/privacy, they'll ignore posts like this:
IMO, Bitmessage is the best way to go right now.
Don't be ignorant.
Use Bitmessage or PGP - I use both.
FYI, Silent Circle no longer offers secure email services. The reason being, since Lavabit, another secure email service, was "shut down," they do not see a way to keep user's emails private. You can read the explanation on their web site, but basically Lavabit closure set a bad precedent. They closed following requests from a govt agency. Also, Silent Circle cites the fundamental un-private nature of email as another reason (having to do with the headers and sent and received email addresses are always visible).
IMO, Bitmessage is the best way to go right now.
IMO, Bitmessage is the best way to go right now.
I dont understand how is this related to bitcoin.
or just use bitmessage or retroshare for the time being until https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/announce-project-quixote-bitshares-bitnames-and-bitmessage-279771 this is working
Silent Circle
Actually much more than just email from Phil Zimmerman
mail.i2p
Relatively safe due to the nature of i2p, but still requires GPG...
Actually much more than just email from Phil Zimmerman
mail.i2p
Relatively safe due to the nature of i2p, but still requires GPG...
Something like https://gpgtools.org/index.html with your own open source mail server and computer?
Right now it is a crapshoot about what is secure and what is not. Between certificate authorities being compromised so you don't know if you are being MITMed, backdoors in MS software (and potentially Mac OS X), Blackberry, iOS, Android (plus either intentionally crippled or stupidly designed PRNGs), Tor issues, and the like, you have everything to worry about if you really need something that is secure.
As far as a random (ha ha) web site, you don't know who is really behind it (as stated above by GreyHawk and NP some web sites in particular). In the past you might have thought that big companies (Google, Apple, RIM, MS, IBM etc) would stand up for privacy, but in reality none of them have been doing so as of now from what has been published. Or at worst, they've used poor security practices or allowed working groups to be derailed so that the standards can be more easily corrupted.
Right now it is a crapshoot about what is secure and what is not. Between certificate authorities being compromised so you don't know if you are being MITMed, backdoors in MS software (and potentially Mac OS X), Blackberry, iOS, Android (plus either intentionally crippled or stupidly designed PRNGs), Tor issues, and the like, you have everything to worry about if you really need something that is secure.
As far as a random (ha ha) web site, you don't know who is really behind it (as stated above by GreyHawk and NP some web sites in particular). In the past you might have thought that big companies (Google, Apple, RIM, MS, IBM etc) would stand up for privacy, but in reality none of them have been doing so as of now from what has been published. Or at worst, they've used poor security practices or allowed working groups to be derailed so that the standards can be more easily corrupted.
I heard today to the TV that the "N$ A" normally hacks into Gmail. Does anyone know of any good secure email services?
I probably need to check out the bit message thing too.
Thanks
I probably need to check out the bit message thing too.
Thanks
Take a look at http://prxbx.com/email/
There are many chinese and russian email service providers, you can use them or others like
safe-mail.net
safe-mail.net is run by Israel intelligence agency. safe-mail.net
There are many chinese and russian email service providers, you can use them or others like
safe-mail.net
safe-mail.net
I heard today to the TV that the "N$ A" normally hacks into Gmail. Does anyone know of any good secure email services?
The server you setup on your own
https://www.neomailbox.net/ from Switzerland.
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