1.Protonmail Behaves like a CIA/NSA “Honeypot” Protonmail has an Onion domain that allows users to visit their site using the TOR browser.  Protonmail even has an SSL cert for that onion address even though it's completely unnecessary. When a user makes a new account with Protonmail on TOR they are

Interesting article critical of Protonmail, a service I see widely promoted to political dissidents as a way to avoid NSA surveillance of emails.

Maybe a better method would be GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) to encrypt e-mails on your own computer before sending them?

There is also this: https://sendgrid.com/blog/what-is-starttls/

Or Bitmessage (which is decentralised)?

        • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Right on. Hadn’t had a chance to read them yet cuz I’m doing yard work but I’m not super worried about it as my main goal is limiting my dealing with the major tech companies as much is possible,. Thanks for your insight!

            • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Lmk if you post it I’d love to read it.

              I do a lot of the recommended things from privacytools.io and limit my association with big tech as much as possible.

              I still use a gmail for work, and have an ig for work (I work in an industry where it’s common to use it) but tbh I’m almost never on it and hardly if ever post. I have no other social media. But apart from that I really don’t use any major tech products any more

                • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Yea the wearing people down is real. The way I have things set up now I have to pass a fucking captcha test to do just about anything lol.

    • culdrought [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Protonmail Follows CIA Email format & Metadata Requirements

      The Internet was developed by DARPA therefore any communication over the Internet is compromised

      I gotta agree this article smells of FUD

  • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I need the internet to decide on a replacement so we can find out faster how that too has been coopted

  • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    Maybe a better method would be GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) to encrypt e-mails on your own computer before sending them?

    Yes. This. I wish this were more well known and ubiquitous. It seems weird and complicated at first but it's rather easy and one of those things that can become second nature once you do it just a few times. And it's all there in your hands. You're not relying on some external service provider, having to trust them that they really are respecting your privacy.

    If anyone wants practice, I'd be happy to swap public keys and send/receive some messages.

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yasha Levine was right about all this privacy tech.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        He has been very skeptical about privacy movement for reasons such as these. His book Surveillance Valley is a very good read where he goes into the history of the internet, and the sketchiness of privacy software such as these. His substack also has good pieces about this. Some can seem like a bit of a stretch, but it is very good to know about this stuff.

  • dpg [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    GPG kind of sucks from a UX perspective and while the fundamentals are good it lacks some features of more modern crypto systems