On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>wrote:
I'm looking for a free email service that isn't linked to one of the major players. I'd prefer one that doesn't make me provide my "real" email address to send some kind of confirmation code to (otherwise I need to string a couple of those together to get the amount of privacy I want.) I don't need NSA-proof or even subpoena-proof, but I do want something that's not linkable to Google/Yahoo/Hotmail/OpenID/**Disqus/Facebook/etc. (or fastmail or pobox, who I use for other services.)
There's a good one made by Swedish hacktivists called fripost.org. They won't bow down unless they are forced by Swedish judges, for what it's worth. I believe they also provide an English version of their website.
By the way, I've found one semi-convenient way to keep web-id accounts separate - I'm running VMware Player on my laptop, and keep separate virtual machines, so any conversations I have with Facebook are really really separate from anything else. (I got tired of reading the news online and seeing different newspapers saying "Here are the articles your friends are reading today!".) Some of this could be done with a chroot jail and/or separate Mozilla profiles, but this way I don't have to worry about Flash cookies or other new creative nonsense leaking around. And it makes it easy to run Linux on my work Windows machine.)
Heh, neat hack. JC