secure email

[Mentalgongfu]

I've been looking at different email options, from signing up with "terabolic radium," a service I found through disinfo.com to registering my own domain somewhere and getting email accounts through that way, which seems more cost-efficient. Currently I have yahoo and aol emails, and I assume everything there is monitored. With AOL, I've even had a number of emails rejected due to content labeled as spam, including excerpts of jeff's writings I've attempted to forward to friends (referred to here in other threads as spamjacketing). <br><br>Basically, I'm looking for suggestions from someone more knowledgeable than I as to where to find a good email host which won't cooperate with NSA requests without a legal fight, as well as things to look for of a techinal nature. I have difficulty decipering the technical mumbo jumbo.<br><br>just sniffing the wind . . . <p></p><i></i>

[bvonahsen]

<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.asarian-host.org" target="top">Asarian-host</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> is run out of the Netherlands. I've had my account since 2000.<br><br>Registering your own domain is the least anonymous as anyone can find out who you are. <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_privacy" target="top">Security?</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> Stay off the internet. Encryption? try <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pgp_encryption" target="top">PGP</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Sepka]

Email isn't secure. PGP is very good, and takes a serious effort with lots of resources to crack, but it's not impregnable. <br><br>-Sepka the Space Weasel <p></p><i></i>

[novistador]

hushmail.com is a decent email site. I've been using it for some time now. Encryption-wise, the open source alternative to PGP, GPG, is quite robust. It provides numerous symmetric and public-key algorithms, and has about twenty different graphical frontends to choose from.<br><br>For secure browsing, try tor (tor.eff.org). Installation is a snap, and it hides all outbound connections by encrypting and bouncing the conx through numerous intermediary nodes, called 'onion routers'. If you are able to find a host who doesn't require your name and cc info, publishing through tor will give you about as much anonymity as you can reasonably expect. <p></p><i></i>