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I just don't want advertising companies or the NSA sniffing around my personal communications. It has to be private as private should be.
by xkarga00 12y ago
I just don't want advertising companies or the NSA sniffing around my personal communications. It has to be private as private should be.
- ForHackernews 12y ago> It has to be private as private should be. But you also don't want to pay any money for it?
- xkarga00 12y agoNo. Do you believe that by paying money your privacy is guaranteed? Even Fastmail's privacy is doubtful regarding its non-US clients -which would be my case if i used it.
- ForHackernews 12y agoOk, but why would anyone set up and run an extremely privacy-hardened service for you, for free?
- xkarga00 12y agoProbably because i am not the only one who would use it.
- teach 12y agoWhat would a company possibly have to gain by creating a service that a lot of people will use and not pay for? Despite what you may have "learned" from the examples of Facebook and Twitter, companies giving away things for free isn't a very good business model.
- DanBC 12y agoPaying for it allows them to spend time researching better systems and gives them some buffer in the dace of legal attack. See also anon.pennet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer
- DanBC 12y agoStopping advertising companies sniffing around is easy. Hushmail will do that. Stopping a government is different. Are you preventing just the slurping of data? (Just because they have your emails in their cache doesn't mean they're grepping for you); or might you be targeted? In which case you're going to have to carefully use operating procedures and software. And make sure the people sending you email do the same. Also, you'll need better locks, and no windows on the ground floor and etc.