[sudo-discuss] FREE SECURE E.MAIL WITH STORAGE ???

[Paul Ivanov]

Hi Troy, 

Troy Massey, on 2013-05-19 03:43,  wrote:
> I'm basically done with Goggle.com for e.mail ( yes that is a correct
> spelling and how I will refer to them from now on as that is exactly what
> Goggle has done to the internet culture by repackaging and commercializing
> the internet into a comercially driven serach engine, it has made us myopic
> quick fix searchers.)

I like this, "goggle" as an alter-NATIVE  pronounciation of that
company's name. Goolag's another alter-NATIVE, with a nice
graphic here [1].
  
> Besides this is NOT what the internet was intended to become.

hear, hear!

If you're looking for other fountains of non-commercialism on the
net, check out freeshell.org - in particular, it's among the
largest remaining GOPHER holes. Read [2] for a quick summary, and
[3] for a longer, slightly different take.

> Does anyone know of any good secure e.mail sevices online with
> decent storage that is free?

You probably know this, but it's worth mentioning again that
email is not a secure medium. The most "secure" that you can get
using email the way most people do is to secure the last leg of
communication, by receiving the contents of your email from the
server encrypted over HTTPS - so no one who might be sniffing the
traffic at the cafe you're sitting at could read along with you.
But prior to that, all of those bits traveled from sender to your
intended server completely as plain text, ready for any number of
relays along the way to inspect the contents and carbon copy
them. That's why if you really want to do secure communication
over email, you have to encrypt the email for the intended
recipient using something like GPG.

It might be worth setting up a prototype of a Freedom Box at
SudoRoom [4]. 

1. http://w3.cultdeadcow.com/cms/2006/02/cdc-launches-gl.html
2. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org/0/users/rbigelo/gopher.txt
3. http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html
4. https://freedomboxfoundation.org/learn/

best,
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Paul Ivanov
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