Good free mildly-private email service?
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.) I used to be able to use dodgeit.com for receive-only email, but they seem to be dead. 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.) Thanks; Bill
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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> writes:
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. . 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. - -- -- StealthMonger <StealthMonger@nym.mixmin.net> Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity. anonget: Is this anonymous browsing, or what? http://groups.google.ws/group/alt.privacy.anon-server/msg/073f34abb668df33?dmode=source&output=gplain stealthmail: Hide whether you're doing email, or when, or with whom. mailto:stealthsuite@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20index.html Key: mailto:stealthsuite@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20stealthmonger-key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.9 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAk6t1q8ACgkQDkU5rhlDCl6k5gCeMbVa1D3pbEjPZWWKAzo+HacM rW0AoMbfQqKUpImkiBvKGDZD2puCAwOg =8uYV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> writes:
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. . 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. - -- -- StealthMonger <StealthMonger@nym.mixmin.net> Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity. anonget: Is this anonymous browsing, or what? http://groups.google.ws/group/alt.privacy.anon-server/msg/073f34abb668df33?dmode=source&output=gplain stealthmail: Hide whether you're doing email, or when, or with whom. mailto:stealthsuite@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20index.html Key: mailto:stealthsuite@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20stealthmonger-key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.9 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAk6t1q8ACgkQDkU5rhlDCl6k5gCeMbVa1D3pbEjPZWWKAzo+HacM rW0AoMbfQqKUpImkiBvKGDZD2puCAwOg =8uYV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 2
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