What's the best free email for privacy/security?

[Weetabix]

What's the best free email for privacy/security?

Gmail is starting to creep me out a bit with the advertisements.

[Weetabix]

Maybe I asked the wrong question. How about least likely to be targeted?

I read your post (advanced google search of your blog, so I don't remember the date on the post) where you said [strike]that[/strike] what you said above. I think it was either your post or Borepatch's that talked about not using IE but using Firefox or Opera instead because it's less likely to be targeted.

Any thoughts on that, or is it just that they're all equal in that regard?

[Weetabix]

Are hushmail's claims just so much bushwah?

[Weetabix]

Any value in that?

[Weetabix]

I have to admit that my interest is mainly in being a pain in the ass to busybodies and collectors of information in general.

I don't do anything exciting or that requires serious privacy. But just because I don't need privacy doesn't mean that anyone else is justified in taking it away. I'm just feeling contrarian lately and looking for easy ways to make things harder for the busybodies.

[Yogimus]

Use a standard encoding that is not electronic. A weekly changing number/letter transfer page at the reciever and at the transmitter. It's a pain in the ass, but it works.


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[Termite]

I have to admit that my interest is mainly in being a pain in the ass to busybodies and collectors of information in general.

I don't do anything exciting or that requires serious privacy. But just because I don't need privacy doesn't mean that anyone else is justified in taking it away. I'm just feeling contrarian lately and looking for easy ways to make things harder for the busybodies.

Buy a used or lap top for cash.
Reformat it.
Set up a Hotmail, Yahoo, etc, email account, with lots of false information, using the laptop, from a public WiFi. DO NOT use this account for anything other than your "contrarian" emails.
NEVER access that account from your home or work computer, ONLY from your laptop, and ONLY use the lap top to send emails from public WiFis.

That's about as good as it gets.

[Jered]

Use a standard encoding that is not electronic. A weekly changing number/letter transfer page at the reciever and at the transmitter. It's a pain in the ass, but it works.


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John has a long moustache.

[Termite]

John has a long moustache.

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[Erik]

Buy a used or lap top for cash.
Reformat it.
Set up a Hotmail, Yahoo, etc, email account, with lots of false information, using the laptop, from a public WiFi. DO NOT use this account for anything other than your "contrarian" emails.
NEVER access that account from your home or work computer, ONLY from your laptop, and ONLY use the lap top to send emails from public WiFis.

That's about as good as it gets.

And add encryption.

Problem is that it might not be enough, unless you use it to communicate only with people that are doing the same thing. Otherwise anyone snooping can see who you are mailing to and from, and deduce who you are.

Personally, I think using encryption and storing mails on your own computer and not online is as good as it gets without adding too much inconvenience.
The main advantage with email is that it's practical, and if you're going to add a lot of work to it you might as well use some other form of communication.