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

[GtwoG PublicOhOne]

Woot!  Paul scores a viral insta-meme:  Goolag!  Or perhaps Göölag?

Goggle is pretty good, but Goolag is right on target in all ways.

-G.


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On 13-05-20-Mon 12:40 PM, Paul Ivanov wrote:
> 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,