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> I may be alone in this, but I expect that everything I do on the Internet is done in public. Nothing new here. So how do you send private messages? Carrier p
by untog 9y ago
> I may be alone in this, but I expect that everything I do on the Internet is done in public. Nothing new here.
So how do you send private messages? Carrier pigeon? Even Signal uses the internet, after all.
- tudelo 9y agoMaybe you don't? Pretty hard to guarantee at any given time anything you do or say is "private", internet or not.
- cjslep 9y agoI bought an entry level fountain pen, some ink, some lightly cotton blended paper and stamps. Then I got hooked. I learned how to fold paper into its own envelope. I bought supple wax and sent a design for a custom wax seal stamp, so now I can mail a letter that is wax sealed domestically or internationally. My friends love getting letters in the mail that's not spam. And a few even write back. One made his whole envelope out of duct tape. We still call and text, of course. And now I am practicing calligraphy in order to craft my own book, binding and all. I got very inspired when I saw the Book of Kells and Chester Beatty collection in Dublin. Practically this has cost me (the fountain pen setup plus forever stamps) $100 USD. But that's because I bought a nice ink. So I think if people have a little bit of disposable income, and have Netflix to cut out of their life, could pick up old fashioned writing to catch up on life's details in private. Heck, could even skip the writing and just buy the envelope and stamps, and type up a letter to print and mail!
- at-fates-hands 9y agoI totally subscribe to this novel idea. However, I hear rumblings about doing away with the USPS for various reasons. It's nice to know I'm not the only one still using some "analog" methods to communicate.
- merpnderp 9y agoI thought letters were x-rayed at the post office and their contents OCR'd?
- _zero 9y agoIf I want to send a private message, I'd use Signal since the cellphone company has logs of your text messages. I really like that there's an option to delete your messages after a certain amount of time. Though I only use it over WiFi. There's also Tor, which I use in combination with an obscure e-mail service that allows you to create accounts and login over Tor. If you want to encrypt the actual email message, then I use GPG, but it isn't always practical.
- MajorSauce 9y agoFYI, if you have privacy-oriented friends, you could use Silence (https://silence.im/ https://silence.im/) for SMS communications. Once keys have been exchanged, it switches to AES encryption with your peers, so carriers will only log a blob of encrypted text.