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Out of curiosity, why do you do this? FastMail has an amazing webmail interface and Android app. I'd never go back to Gmail.
by nly 10y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you do this? FastMail has an amazing webmail interface and Android app. I'd never go back to Gmail.
- peteretep 10y agoThe original thinking was to make it harder for casual snoopers. If FastMail gets compromised, then they'd need to be compromised over time and someone would need to review a lot of my email with a shelf-life of one-hour to understand who I was - I use auto-generated credentials, paid via Bitcoin, and login once a year via VPN to generate more addresses. If Gmail gets compromised, you'd need to be looking for a bunch of Fastmail accounts in To: addresses to link my primary email with those emails. If you wanted to track me down from an email address, you'd need a warrant in Australia (for FastMail), and the US (to find the account using those FastMail credentials), so I'd need to have actually done something wrong (which I haven't), and you'd need to convince judges in two jurisdictions of that. As I said, the threat model is against casual snoopers, rather than a determined state actor with proof of wrong-doing, as I don't think I'm even slightly interesting and I don't think I've done anything that would make me interesting. As it turns out, you could probably just read enough of my FastMail email as it came in (before it gets deleted by Gmail) to figure out who I am, so this is imperfect.
- nly 10y agoIt'd be a lot simpler to rent a VPS and setup your own mail server.