Is Protonmail the best, safest private email service? or is there a better one? (non-paid)
Is Protonmail the best, safest private email service? or is there a better one? (non-paid)
Christian Nguyen
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Hudson Martinez
Safe from what? All private messaging services are compromised on a federal level. Are you some sort of criminal or something?
Ethan Stewart
Nothing on the internet is private user.
Colton Watson
Proton admits to letting the government see your stuff. As for better I dont know. They dont make you post a phone number or existing email to get an email. I dont know anyone else that does that.
Cooper Cook
Actually a good question OP. Idk if any free service exists that compares. If you're dealing with sensitive or dangerous info you should probably add another layer of traffic encryption also.
>how this thread gets more traffic..
Joseph Cooper
PM is trash. Switzerland has an MLAT with the U.S. and any other country you probably live in. Nobody who works for PM is going to refuse a court order and go to jail to protect your emails, and they're only E2E encrypted as long as they don't serve you custom js designed to compromise your private key.
Email was never designed to be private, but if you really want to fit a square peg into a round hole, you need to learn to use GPG and get everyone else you want to communicate with to use it, too.
Better yet, just forget about email and use Signal instead.
Better yet, realize that the fact that you're asking a question about PM, in 2022, on Any Forums, means that there's no way your opsec isn't going to be totally fucked.
Nathan Collins
It's probably still one of the best, but email in general is shit for privacy, and a company can be compelled to divulge information, or make changes to its systems in order to collect information by governments, so depending on your goals it still isn't great.
Using GPG within email can solve some of the issues with it as a platform, but you need to convince the people you're getting in contact with to also use it properly. Also while GPG can protect the content of messages the meta data, mainly who and when are still readily available.
Nicholas Garcia
This user probably has the right of it with Signal. If you want security and privacy hosting your own servers using things that were actually designed from the ground up for privacy is probably leaps and bounds better than trusting some company to do it for you, or take the fall for you (they won't).
WASTE was another interesting one.
waste.sourceforge.net
Michael Myers
Nevermind, WASTE looks pretty dead now.
Carter Parker
People claim its a honeypot
Asher Allen
>WASTE was another interesting one.
It was, but I2P and Freenet, and the applications built on them, do all the same stuff, but better.
Mason Cox
Is tor still a thing? Since the silk road got picked up by the feds is there any thing worth scouring for?
>tried to pick up some anons to go snuff hunting couldn't find anyone.
Austin Clark
I'm speaking comparing it to the more popular options like gmail and such, I have no intention to do anything illegal, just want to be more safe from attacks and feel more safe by *slightly more privacy.
Julian Ortiz
>Since the silk road got picked up by the feds
It was a fucking honeypot since day 0. The mere conception was a bunch of glowies giving some fake sense of security to some ashats so they would lure some of the big fish and in due time it somewhat worked.
Of course this shit won't stop people from killing each other or buying illegal shit by other means but this just means going back to the ye olde ways.
Bentley Sanchez
>Is tor still a thing?
metrics.torproject.org
Sebastian Harris
>It was a fucking honeypot since day 0
Ur adorable.
Xavier Jones
Some people are confusing anonymity with privacy. Proton are obliged to provide any data they have if legally obliged to, like any other business. You should lean towards businesses that don’t have the data to share to begin with. You should take steps to avoid revealing that information. For example if a business is legally required to log IPs, hide your IP or use their tor website.So if they’re put under pressure, they’ve got nothing to share. A long story short, despite contents being encrypted, certain data is going to be linked and email is not the most secure way of communicating. But it depends what you’re doing, who’s radar you’re on, and who’s coming after you.
On the flip side. If you want an email provider with less invasive privacy policies than Google, it might suffice for your purposes among others if you’re keen to avoid being tracked, scanned, targeted with marketing etc
James Sanders
Watch Robert braxman's video on PM on his YT channel
Caleb Butler
they dont harvest your data and your mailbox is encrypted by your personal key...but they still are required to keep access logs as all providers of that type are.
Daniel Garcia
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isn't that guy a govt psyop?
Gabriel Miller
Is he? Never heard