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

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

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Termite wrote:Ask yourself this: How many forwarded emails have you received where the sender never bothered to strip out the previous email addresses? Or they CC instead of BCC?
Oh, gobs and gobs! It's sometimes quite interesting to see who knows who based on a cc string.
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Re: What's the best free email for privacy/security?

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CByrneIV wrote:So use adblock.

There aren't any email service, free or not, with any privacy or security worth mentioning, excepting those that actually encrypt your mail using PGP.

If you want privacy and security, don't use email.

No, I'm not kidding, or exaggerating. In terms of privacy and security, email is somewhere between posting your message on a billboard in times square, and sending a post card around the world three or four times.
Yup, discuss your not for primetime opinions with your friends not on boards, email, FB, twitter, etc,etc, dont have a crystal ball, it pays to be carefull, also rembember the bard in these matters.
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Re: What's the best free email for privacy/security?

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arctictom wrote:also rembember the bard in these matters.
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