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Someone (or something) is likely reading your unencrypted emails right now. Instead, develop better email practices that protect you under the most circumstances. When picking a provider, avoid criteria that is based on “Security by Policy” - unenforceable security mechanisms based on you trusting the provider. The better question is: “Why trust any if you don’t need to?” Mentioned because unfortunately this is not a rare problem. The abusive traffic could be overwhelming and providers have limited resources.ĭata transfer: only having webmail and not allowing emails to be downloaded is unacceptable for serious use.

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Some understanding for complicating registration through Tor may be justified. Tor policy: allowing access through Tor and providing an onion address indicates a high degree of technical proficiency and commitment to privacy. Transparency of authorship: It’s hard to trust a service if there are no names behind it. Happily this is not unheard of for email services. Transparency of code: the most trustworthy providers provide all their source code. Even if the state seems nice it may have powerful “allies”. There’s hardly a place where the state isn’t able to force the provider to hand over whatever is available. Third-party content: outsourced captchas and scripts at registration or any time later are probably a very bad indicator.Ĭountry of origin: important, but may not be decisive.

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Popular and seemingly privacy oriented services with free accounts will invariably come under more scrutiny as they will sadly also be more commonly used for dubious activities.

Which email providers would you be most likely to trust and why?įinancing: requiring payment could be a good indicator the provider has a sustainable and privacy respecting business model. This is of interest because Protonmail has claimed (successfully) leadership in privacy oriented email. Their “trust us” JS crypto blobs that can turn on the user and steal their passwords any time and their refusal to support IMAP makes them a BAD choice for anyone who wants secure email. Here are a few privacy oriented provider lists, please mention any others: Tor is great but email should work well on the clearnet too, it’s where most people are. Finally let’s not limit the discussion to Tor friendly providers. A clear distinction needs to be made for choosing short-term or disposable accounts and for long-term accounts which you’d want to be very reliable. Despite that I think this discussion could find its place here as there is interest. The focus here isn’t so much anonymity and Tor, but rather security and privacy. Let’s have a discussion about email providers.