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Is Safe Email A Myth?

 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
03:26 / 22.08.02
Are there any safe annonymous free e-mail services around? I heard http://www.safe-email.net/ shows your IP adress when you send messages and all that. Or do only the proper softwares take can do it?
 
 
fondula
13:45 / 04.09.02
It is not a myth nor an easy thing to acquire, depending on a lot of different things: do you want webbased or pop/smtp/imap based mail? do you need to post to newsgroups? do you need encyption?

You can always use anonymous webbased email, or simply a remailer, to make sure your IP doesn't show up in the message header. I suggest you take a look into the following...

-ssl.mailvault.com, which I find top quality among webbased services
-hushmail.com, which has anoying commercials all around
-quicksilver, a remailer client program
-jack b nymble, another remailer/nym client program
-havenco's remailer, info somewhere on www.havenco.com

If you're truly paranoid, I suggest the use of an anonymous proxy on top of all above...
-privatesea.net is one I like
-magusnet
-some open SOCKS5 or similar

If you're looking for encryption, I suggest...
-pgp, a version which has the source published, like the CKT-version
-gpg (always opensource)

Hope this helps you out a bit...
 
  
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