Good free mildly-private email service?

[Jens Christian Hillerup]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at 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