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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: afflicted on August 28, 2013, 03:40 pm

Title: e mail
Post by: afflicted on August 28, 2013, 03:40 pm
What are people using for e mail now tor mail is a no no? also intersted in peoples opinion on my security :

1. Use a second laptop purely for SR
2. Use public wif
3. laptop is not linked to me

your thoughts would be appreciated particularly on the email front.

many thanks

afflicted
Title: Re: e mail
Post by: dotgoat on August 29, 2013, 12:36 am
I assume this laptop has full disk encryption?  If not I'd do that.  If it's using tails I'm assuming that would set it up.  If it's windows then I'd recommend truecrypt, nice thing about truecrypt is it will do the encryption on the fly (after a couple minutes to do some initial encryption) so you don't have to reconfigure things.

For email I think it's pretty much use PMs here or on SR.  There's bitmessage but keep in mind like onion.to there's a bitmessage gateway at bitmessage.ch.  So people from clearnet could send a message to you.  But it's the same as onion.to.  The person using the gateway is the one that's getting easily identified, you're hiding behind a bitmessage address.  I tested sending to a non bitmessage.ch bitmessage address from a bitmessage.ch account and it worked.  I have not tested sending from a gmail account or something to <an address created on the windows client and not here>@bitmessage.ch to see if it forwards it on to the bitmessage p2p network.
Title: Re: e mail
Post by: Rastaman Vibration on August 29, 2013, 12:49 am
I set up a bunch of anonymous yahoo accounts that can't be traced back to me. Its a bit tricky, as yahoo requires a cell phone number to set up an account, but, after a few guesses, you can get it to go through.

Of course, PGP is a given if you're sending sensitive info. Yahoo is not known for protecting its users' privacy...
Title: Re: e mail
Post by: mbd99 on August 29, 2013, 11:57 pm
I'm using bitmessage.ch along with PGP. It appears to be a viable solution but I would love to hear other folks opinions.