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Bill Stewart
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.)
Have you considered stealthmail? See mailto: below.
Package: stealthmail
Architecture: all
Pre-Depends: gnupg
Depends: procmail, esubbf, openssl, dc, libssl0.9.6 | libssl0.9.7,
fetchmail | kmail, suck, ppp, solid-pop3d, exim | exim4, dpkg (>= 1.10.21),
grep (>= 2.5), bash (>= 2.05b), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: scripts to hide whether you're doing email, or when, or with whom
Maintain on-going random cover traffic via usenet newsgroup
alt.anonymous.messages, substituting encrypted live traffic when
available. A live message is indistinguishable from a random cover
message except with the decryption keys. All potential participants
send messages to alt.anonymous.messages with rigid periodicity
uncorrelated with any live traffic, and maintain an uninterrupted
full feed from alt.anonymous.messages, so that an observer cannot
determine whether, when, or among whom live communication is
happening.
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Members of a "stealthmail group" -- call it "OurGroup" for purposes
of this discussion -- are defined by their knowledge of the
encryption keys created for the group. With this package installed,
mail addressed to OurGroup@stealthmail does not go directly to the
Internet like ordinary mail, but gets encrypted by the OurGroup key,
given an encrypted subject intelligible only with OurGroup keys, and
queued to go to alt.anonymous.messages in place of a piece of cover
traffic at the next scheduled sending time. Meanwhile, all messages
appearing on alt.anonymous.messages are downloaded into an incoming
queue. A POP3 server runs on the local host. The mail reader is
provided with filters so that when it fetches mail from this local
server, messages having subject lines encrypted for OurGroup (or any
other stealthmail group of which this host is a member) are decrypted
by the appropriate key and presented. Other messages are discarded.
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-- StealthMonger