Comments on: Tips For The Privacy Minded

By: hairstyle

hairstyle — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:36:27 +0000

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By: gochi

gochi — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:22:18 +0000

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By: sbspalding

sbspalding — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:54:52 +0000

This are great tips. Just as a note, if anyone wants to write a guest post about private web surfing, my mailbox is open. It's a really interesting subject matter that I wish I knew more about.

By: anonymous email

anonymous email — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:31:42 +0000

Note that you are never fully secure even you services like hushmail.com, TOR etc. Those system have bugs too. For example google "Hushmail FBI" and you will find tons of news article which do not say good things about this service.

To be on the secure side, either download GnuPG use a strong passphrase, then you can send secure emails directly without the need of a forwarder in the middle like hushmail.com. If you need this middle man, do yourself a favor and go offshore. You can stay above the law (US) when using anonymous email services in countries. Go for Japan, Malaysia, Russia.

By: sbspalding

sbspalding — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:11:38 +0000

The comment about Tor really needed to be said, it's not a magic bullet for privacy it is more or less an onion router. It makes it difficult to tell how data made it from source to destination (thus making your identity harder to establish) but that is about it.

As for choosing the “secure version” of Hushmail, that is right as well. I don't have too much experience with the program but client-side encryption seems a lot more secure than passing it to Hushmail's servers first.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:56:13 +0000

There is some confusion about what Tor does. Tor encrypts your traffic ONLY while it is within the Tor network. As soon as it leaves the network it is unencrypted. Tor hides your IP address from the server/website you are using. That's ALL it does. The encryption is simply so that intermediate parts of the Tor network don't know what site you are visiting and don't know what your IP address is.

Hushmail has also been the subject of many a security discussion and the upshot of it all is “choose the secure Hushmail version, not the easy Hushmail version”. The secure one involves running a Java Applet that encrypts your emails before they leave your computer. The easy version has you type your email into a normal textarea, just like the one I'm writing in now, and encrypts it on their server.