Safe Email

[Strapped]

Anyone have suggestions for an e-mail provider that doesn't have a cooperation agreement with leo, or a real privacy agreement? Something to remain as anonymous as possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

S

 

[areUkind]

are there particular email services to avoid?

 

[SCROG McDuck]

I've been useing HUSHMAIL... free.

 

[mugenbao]

I've been useing HUSHMAIL... free.

I use Hushmail as well, and *only* connect to it via TorBrowser. As long as you watch what you write in your emails, they couldn't give leo anything useful even if they wanted to, which I've never heard of them doing in any case.

For that price (free) and level of convenience, I don't think you can do any better for secure private email.

 

[ddrew]

I always went with hushmail and cyber-rights.net way back when I was up to no good online, and wanted my emails to be private.

This was years ago, so I don't know how safe they are now.

 

[Strapped]

Thanks for all the advice guys. areUkind, google and yahoo have agreements where all their user information (email records, user names and addresses, passwords) is essentially available for purchase to any LEO agency who cares to "investigate."

If you want to read it Yahoo's "Compliance guide for Law Enforcement" was pretty eye opening for me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aside from obvious privacy concerns what's to stop a corrupt leo from some other country from spending $10 a pop to steal people's virtual identities?

 

[SCROG McDuck]

And now that I think of it...

google/gmail scans every email, looking for key words..

Scroogle scraper is Google without oversite..

http://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

Some one here at IC wrote about it...
I use it, fewer bells and whistles.. no cookies/tracking.

 

[Strapped]

wow, I had no idea google scanned every e-mail. I wonder what keywords they search for, hmmm.

 

[Max Headroom]

i use hushmail, too.

if the other party has an account as well, you can send encrypted mails.