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Re: [tor-talk] What are some free and private email providers?



On 10/12/2013 1:48 PM, Antispam 06 wrote:
On 24.05.2013 00:50, Moritz Bartl wrote:
On 23.05.2013 22:23, Nathan Suchy wrote:
I'm looking for email providers with decent support, a good amount of
storage, and that protect your privacy. Do you know any?
In the end, for plaintext email, you always have to "trust" the
operator. There's valid reasons for going with Google for some
activities. For others, it might be better to take a look at
https://we.riseup.net/riseuphelp+en/radical-servers .
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/EmailProviderComparison is
not very helpful.
http://www.thesimplecomputer.info/articles/email-for-privacy.html is
another older list.
Things are looking bad. Lavabit is out. Fastmail is paid only. Nothing
wrong with paid, only it beats the anonymity. Vmail.me has closed the
gates. And it has big problems anyway: gmail bounces all my emails.
Openmailbox has closed its gates. The system works well. The
registration is off. Tormail is shutdown and unreachable.

Even large guys changed lately. Lycos imposes a SMS ID with only a
handful of countries in its list. Gmail imposes the SMS, even if their
list is far greater. Gmx and Mail refuse account creation. They say it's
tech problems, but it looks like Tor allergy. And Mail.com is a mask for
more services. Hushmail shows only paid plans. Cyber-rights mask gave me
access, but hushmail said it's suspended and gave me a chance to pay.


If you're looking for privacy, Gmail is the wrong place. Even if you could create an acct using TBB (doubtful), they scan everything - as do many others.
You can encrypt your more private messages, or attach encrypted files.

Yahoo may still let you create an acct w/ TBB. In the US, you may have to use a US exit relay & may have to use one each time you log in - or face the security questions, or complete login denial. Not the best, but...

Here's an older comparison of some "more privacy conscious" providers, I did early this yrs. Some data is no doubt outdated by now.
http://bayfiles.net/file/XYO1/iKZYCo/Email_provider_comparison.pdf
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