[thegmanifesto]

Simon Black just had a pretty good post recently:

GOOGLE CHANGES ITS PRIVACY POLICY: ANOTHER REMINDER TO USE OFFSHORE EMAIL http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/google...ore-email/

I have been meaning to do this for a while.

He mentions:

https://secure.runbox.com/ (Norway)

http://www.SwissMail.org/ (Switzerland)

http://www.NeoMailbox.com/ (Switzerland)

And some guy in the comments mentions:

http://jumpshipservices.co/

Anyone have any personal experience to share?

[TudoBem]

(02-04-2012 04:52 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Simon Black just had a pretty good post recently:

GOOGLE CHANGES ITS PRIVACY POLICY: ANOTHER REMINDER TO USE OFFSHORE EMAIL http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/google...ore-email/

I have been meaning to do this for a while.

He mentions:

https://secure.runbox.com/ (Norway)

http://www.SwissMail.org/ (Switzerland)

http://www.NeoMailbox.com/ (Switzerland)

And some guy in the comments mentions:

http://jumpshipservices.co/

Anyone have any personal experience to share?

I used to use Hushmail, but suspect it has sold out.
Nothing electronic is 100% secure.
Using Cypherpunk anonymous remailer is close to as good as privacy gets, unless you want to use couriers and live in a cave.

[Cookie]

I used to use a disposable email called slopsbox, but it's no longer around. From what I've heard though YOPmail is basically its replacement. You can also mask the actual email address with it too.

[Mr.GM]

good post G, I'll definitely get out of Gmail for my upcoming blog email account.

[TNT]

(02-04-2012 04:52 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Simon Black just had a pretty good post recently:

GOOGLE CHANGES ITS PRIVACY POLICY: ANOTHER REMINDER TO USE OFFSHORE EMAIL http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/google...ore-email/

I have been meaning to do this for a while.

He mentions:

https://secure.runbox.com/ (Norway)

http://www.SwissMail.org/ (Switzerland)

http://www.NeoMailbox.com/ (Switzerland)

And some guy in the comments mentions:

http://jumpshipservices.co/

Anyone have any personal experience to share?

Just saw this thread - can anyone recommend a great offshore email account service now?

[CaptainCrazy]

Buy non-US controlled domain using non-US registrar. I chose .pe as first two letters of my surname so I can have [email protected] email.

Buy cheap server at ovh.com in France and hide it under Eastern European IP (that you can buy from them as well). You need a dedicated server, not a VPS, so you don't have any "neighbours" on the physical box.

I bough one from soyoustart.com and added Belgium and Netherlands IPs.

Install this https://github.com/al3x/sovereign

Enjoy your privacy. Email, chat, dropbox-like file storage, calendar, VPN, all included.

Total cost: $50 per year for the domain name and $30 to $60 per month for a dedicated server.

[The Beast1]

If you don't own the hardware, you aren't secure. I wouldn't trust an off shore server company just as much as I don't trust Google to not let the NSA know about what genre of porn I enjoy the most.

Buy your own domain, run the server at your house, and pay for the bandwidth. Use PGP to encrypt your email.

[Northern]

There have been news reports saying that NSA can/could hack SSL. So, even offshore accounts are not secure.

[Orson]

(02-04-2012 04:52 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Simon Black just had a pretty good post recently:

GOOGLE CHANGES ITS PRIVACY POLICY: ANOTHER REMINDER TO USE OFFSHORE EMAIL http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/google...ore-email/

I have been meaning to do this for a while.

He mentions:

https://secure.runbox.com/ (Norway)

http://www.SwissMail.org/ (Switzerland)

http://www.NeoMailbox.com/ (Switzerland)

And some guy in the comments mentions:

http://jumpshipservices.co/

Anyone have any personal experience to share?

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Email services based in Germany!

GMX has long been a security conscious favorite. "Posteo" fought off German police requests; it offers anonymity and does not keep customer IDs.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/20...atrik-lohr

But naturally, a user expecting privacy must do their homework to know what they are getting or not getting from their Email provider.

ZDnet has a rundown from last spring
http://www.zdnet.com/article/worried-abo...-the-rise/

EXCERPT: Email provider...

Quote:

Companies...are finding that Germany — with a population that is increasingly tuned-in to security risks, coupled with the country's strict privacy regulations — is a good place to offer secure email service.

In fact, the country’s Independent Centre for Data Protection, a government advisory agency, explicitly advises email users to avoid American internet services.

[undawata2009]

Quite ironic that Germany of all countries is anal with their security. Less than 40 years ago the Stasi was spying on everyone and their mom in Deutschland!

Anyway I just came across tutanota.de for email services. Seems legit so far

[fucksong]

Hate to break it to you guys but if YOU ARE IN US and you send emails OUT of US, I believe the gov can snoop on you. There was even a story I think of Tormail or whatever that was called that was associated with Tor where all the members info was gathered. Just accept the fact it's 1984

[buja]

(02-12-2015 09:56 PM)fucksong Wrote:  

Hate to break it to you guys but if YOU ARE IN US and you send emails OUT of US, I believe the gov can snoop on you. There was even a story I think of Tormail or whatever that was called that was associated with Tor where all the members info was gathered. Just accept the fact it's 1984

I disagree.
Startmail has an end-to-end encryption option.
Their servers are encrypted.

(02-12-2015 09:56 PM)fucksong Wrote:  

Just accept the fact it's 1984

In other words, just bend over...