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Secure E-mail service
- Thread starter BlackBart
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depends on what you are wanting to do... for online orders/registration.. i use
http://mailinator.com/ but if you are talking about ongoing correspondence i would suggest looking to something besides email. hushmail has been proven to aid law enforcement (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/hushmail-to-war.html)
Stenography with regular open email? PGP? Smoke signals.
-dh
http://mailinator.com/ but if you are talking about ongoing correspondence i would suggest looking to something besides email. hushmail has been proven to aid law enforcement (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/hushmail-to-war.html)
Stenography with regular open email? PGP? Smoke signals.
-dh
I wouldn't trust any of them at all. It's best not to say anything that you don't want someone else reading.
If you have to use one at all for ordering and the such, use one and don't give any true personal information.... It's also best to register through a proxy if you can. There are many free ones for that purpose......
If you have to use one at all for ordering and the such, use one and don't give any true personal information.... It's also best to register through a proxy if you can. There are many free ones for that purpose......
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darkhollo said:
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VanillaGueriila
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JJScorpio said:
Very true. IMO the best route would just be to set up a free email while using a proxy. The use 3rd party encryption software to encrypt your message. Of course the recieving party has to have the same encryption software and a previously discussed p/w. Even then this would only be worthwhile if the decrypted message read as jibberish and had to be further deciphered by the recipient. WAY TO MUCH WORK FOR EMAIL. But that would be a safe bet.
Im with JJ on this butI just dont trust email period.
Sorry for my stoned ramblings. LOL
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KharmaGirl and dh:
Thanks for pointing that out about hushmail.
Thanks for pointing that out about hushmail.
zeeba amoeba
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peanutbutter said:
The article KarmaGirl referenced simply says Hushmail will comply with a court order. Unless their servers were located in North Korea I don't see how any email provider could defy a court order for very long.
However the article sez only specific named individuals in a court order are targeted. Nothing is mentioned about random fishing expeditions. So for the average Joe, using Hushmail on a public computer (say, in an internet cafe) would be fairly secure. Hushmail does not ask you for a preexisting email account, and therefore you can really be completely anonymous in setting it up, even down to the IP address level (by setting up in a public computer).
I don't really trust proxies. I think proxies are excellent fishing sites for leo of various stripes. Think of all the outlaws that probably use proxies because somebody suggested that it was a nifty idea. Who runs the proxies? Probably half of them are in various government counter-espionage agencies. The other half, underworld crime syndicates looking to steal your identity. Hoof it over to your local internet cafe or public library and just browse like normal. You will be really anonymous then as opposed to theoretically anonymous (and potentially getting set up for an arrest or id theft).
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yamaha_1fan
As far as IP's go, using a laptop is great.
Last night on the way back on a road trip, my daughter is using the laptop for a report. We pull into a gas station and she says, hey I got wi-fi. we were next to a marriott.
You can get internet anywhere. Hotels, Motels, fast food chains, etc.
Of course you would probably want to use a laptop that was not linked back to you, like a Dell. I dont even know if they could track that back to you, if Dell records the MAC address of every box it sends out?
Last night on the way back on a road trip, my daughter is using the laptop for a report. We pull into a gas station and she says, hey I got wi-fi. we were next to a marriott.
You can get internet anywhere. Hotels, Motels, fast food chains, etc.
Of course you would probably want to use a laptop that was not linked back to you, like a Dell. I dont even know if they could track that back to you, if Dell records the MAC address of every box it sends out?
Here's a good site to check and see if the proxy you are using is working. Turn on your proxy and just log on and it will tell you the IP it is showing.....
http://www.lagado.com/proxy-test
http://www.lagado.com/proxy-test
VanillaGueriila
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yamaha_1fan said:
It is not difficult to spoof you MAC ID if you run one of the many versions of linux available for wireless auditing, such as BackTrack. I boot BackTrack from a cd so It doesnt even take up any space on my hdd.
JJ, what does it mean or show you about your security, or vulnerability by running that proxy test?
Vanilla, I run a version of windows, is there a way to hide information about my computer and still surf the internet?
Vanilla, I run a version of windows, is there a way to hide information about my computer and still surf the internet?
Weedninja
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VH, A proxy test tells whether your IP is "bleeding" through your proxy. IOW, if your real IP is not detected during a proxy test, then you are not transmitting your IP to sites you visit while using that proxy.
BB, I've only found 1 web-based email service that won't try to "break" you out of your proxy when you register. PM me if you're still interested.
BB, I've only found 1 web-based email service that won't try to "break" you out of your proxy when you register. PM me if you're still interested.
GrassRoots
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Weedninja said:
I don't know much about internet security but you're making it sound like a lot of these services will render a proxy usesless
when you register. If that's the case would it be advisable to register while at a library or a public computer of sorts (campus or something) and then not worry as much when you're checking it later while using a proxy?
VanillaGueriila
Member
VirginHarvester said:
Not if you are running windows. You would have to boot a different OS and then take the added effort to spoof all the info being sent out from your machine. If you look hard enough you can find step by step walkthroughs on how to do this. Nothing you do in Windows is private or hidden from anyone important.......
thekingofNY
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