Secure Email, Anonymous Proxies and computer Security: MUST READ!!!

[BHarper]

I'm not sure what forum to place this in, but this gets the most attention, so this is where I posted it. I figured that I would list the current options for secure email. I want to know all your questions and concerns. I will do my best to help find the right solution and then write up tutorials.

Rank---Name --- Country, Operating System / Software
1__S-mail.com - Russian Federation!!, RHEL (Red hat Linux), Apache
2__Anonymousspeech.com - JAPAN!!!, Microsoft IIS6.0
3__Safe-mail.net - Isreal, CentOS (Linux), Apache
4__Cryptomail.org - USA, Unix, Apache
5__Securenym.net - USA, Unix, Apache
6__Hushmail.com - UK, Apache
7__Cyber-rights.net - Canada, Microsoft
(I would say Cyber-rights and Hushmail are only good for sending semi-sensitive material where you need IP address anonymity, but it can be found with a court order. It can't be seen be the receiver.)

Ideally we would figure out how to get PGP or GPG working and use that in conjunction with the above. If anyone knows anything about this, PLEASE get in touch with me and give me a starting point. I'd be glad to work up a tutorial for bro's!

Also, I do not believe that Skype can be surveilled at this moment. It uses a P2P encryption that isn't standard on VoIP.

Now to the proxies. There are programs like the "Anonymizer". You can also look into Tor, which was created by the Navy so I suspect there are back doors built in. Now there are free anonymous proxies but the good ones are few and far between. I would recommend a paid service or setting up one yourself with a free SSH shell account and tunneling to it (this is really cool as you can make your own proxy and jump 1-1000+ times, just depending upon the # of free accounts you can find.) I will write much more on this, but PLEASE put your questions here so I will be able to see what I am de****g with . I'll also cover using unsecured wireless and possibly secured wireless

Computer security. Well this area is pretty broad. We are talking about windows or Linux. Firewall's. This is the last section that I feel like deal-ing with, but I will cover it in more detail later. I figure I may make different levels of security measures so depending on if you are a client or a source, you can protect yourself adequately.

PLEASE let me know any questions that have gone through your head while reading this (that relate to the topic). If you have computer know-how and want to help out, by all means, I'm open to someone else re-searching. I have a lot on my table and would like to share some of the research.

Thanks

 

[natabolic]

Great post bro. Thanks.

 

[Kaiser]

Thank for your participation here Harper. We've gone over a few of these issues a few times in here. Ultimately, there is no secure email providers as the US government owns the internet and has a back door to just about everything. as far as PGP, they must use a version prior to 7.0 because there is a built in back door. we also used to have a sponsor here Anointed's FindNot **broken link removed** who provided very good service, and even MAC cards. My suggestion to most about email was to give your recipient a password via different avenue, then send their email in an encrypted RAR or Zip file with a strong password. There is no hash to be obtained and no back door yet, so they would need to brute force the crack, which as you know could take years with strong authentication. so many years that whatever they were doing would more that likely fall outside the statue of limitation. Anyway, I'm interested in some of your views here, and thank you for posting.

 

[Tyrone]

Couple things come to mind...

Securenym is u.s. based yet it doesn't log IP's etc. and you can pay anonymously for service...What other down falls are there to this if using an older pgp version than 7.0.....Or not?
The other question I have is the basing for 'findnot'...I thought it was Canadian based....If so, isn't there a potential for a 'court order' for vital info out there? I've heard of a few other 'anonymizers' but am never sure who to trust or what has been taken-over/bought by government. Paranoid

 

[Kane]

I've been using Kaspersky Internet Security Suite and I've been very pleased with it. I have to renew it in a few days but before I do, I'd like to check out some other programs that offer similar protection or maybe even better. Any suggestions?