I guess you have to run your own server now if you want any privacy
Your ISP might still screw you on that one.
Donāt be sad. You have a big military. Makes most USians feel brave and proud. Just as the North-Koreansā¦
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I hope companies like Google and Microsoft will do that.
Part of how both Google and Microsoft got to where they are today is by secretly colluding with our government against average Americans and other businesses. They are understandably very reluctant to bite the hand that feeds. Vast monopolies of their size donāt form naturally in a truly competitive business environment.
sounds like a total disaster idea.
Hi,
I recently tried a new software to mail, share documents and IM messaging in a most secure way : GITH on mac and windows.
All data is encrypted and the company providing this software canāt decypher it no matter whatā¦ And itās french so no ties to US Government.
http://www.gith-systems.com/overview/
Itās still in beta though for the moment but very promising on the security and confidentiality side !
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Silent Circle has shut down Mail
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The problem with centralised systems is that they can be shut down.
Iāve come up with a decentralised protocol that creates āZooko-Triangleā-proof identites. Global secure, human memorizable and decentralised.
Itās a way to perform a lookup from name to certificate so you can build any communitcation system on top of it. You can use it to eliminate usernames and password accounts, create decentralised message systems.
I call it Eccentric Authentication.
Please see: http://eccentric-authentication.org/eccentric-authentication/five-minute-overview.html,
and play with it from here: http://eccentric-authentication.org/blog/2013/06/07/run-it-yourself.html
Regards, Guido.
PS. It needs a lot of work to go from concept phase to reality. Please help with time or bucks.
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Oh, heavens. That is flippinā awesome.
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Can you be more specific? What exactly are you suggesting the government did to prevent other companies from competing with Google or Microsoft?
And 1984 an instruction manual?
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I am always surprised at how there is no demonstration culture in america. This is a BIG thing. Why are you not at the streets? There is clearly a big dissaproval, a global one, of this bullshit. It needs to stop, and sadly, it is mostly in northamerican hands.
I get the impression hushmail is more secure that most services:
- located outside the US
- reveals information only in response to local court orders (British Columbia, Canada)
- mail is stored encrypted on disk
It sounds a lot like lavabit, except they declare ahead of time that they will comply with court orders.
Nice trolley. You caught some fish easy with that one. Or youāre just an asshole.
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We are the demonstration and we better get to it. Damn it, team up with a bunch of friends and do something. If everyone here doesnāt call their representative and senators why did you even post here? Those congresscritters are the guys that f#$%ed everything up.
I was originally tempted to set up my own e-mail server, but the logistics are a pain (Iāve been network Administrator for over a dozen companies in the past). What I ended up doing is getting accounts with MAIL.RU and YANDEX.RU. They donāt have to do anything that the U.S. government requires. Beware Canadian servers. Stephen Harper is known as being āGeorge Bush, Jr.ā and will bend over backwards to kiss Americaās collective ass.
Ok, Iām a jerkā¦ this guy looks pretty legit.
Looks like he worked on electronic elections for the Dutch Parliament election in 1998. Of course I got nothing to prove this except his Linkedin page. He has though been pretty open with his name online for a long while.
Relevant work history.
Pretty active in security related mailing lists and forums.
Looks like he worked on a CircleMud in the mid 90ās. 
I feel I should certainly add this isnāt an endorsement though. Use at your own risk. Just trying not to be douche bag when I can.
Of course itās not secure. Nothing is anymore. Thatās the point.
If you host is outside the US, the NSA will capture every packet going in and out of the site.
If itās in the US, the NSA will get a court order forcing them to give the NSA direct access to the servers.
I just setup an account with mykolab.com Iām still looking into it, but supposedly their servers are in Switzerland, which is very hesitant to hand over any data to anyone. They did say they will comply with all Swiss laws so there is still a legal channel to your information, but it looks like the Swiss government publishes all request and why they were made. It also looks like very few request are made per year. One thing to note, looking out for your privacy and no cost are probably going to be exclusive in this case. If you get something from a business that you donāt pay for then you are not the customer, you and your data are the product that the business is selling to their customers. In the past I have not minded this with google, since they claim to anonymize things to a certain extent when dealing with advertisers. However it now appears any company in the US can be forced to hand over any information the NSA wants without your knowledge.
this seems quite cheap?
Do recall, the NSA has contacts and has been shown to work with outside intelligence agencies. And the NSA isnāt the only intelligence agency in the game doing things like this, theyāre just the ones currently in the forefront.
