Just a quick note...a nice, safe, easily anonymized email account can be had at safe-mail.net. No hoops to jump through, tor friendly.
On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 01:52:31 am grarpamp wrote: > >> >Google requires you to be able to receive a text message or phone call to > >> >use a GMail account over Tor. > >> 1st I've heard they REQUIRE a phone # to use Gmail over Tor. Anyone > >> else aware this is the only way? > > First I've heard that they require SMS to *USE* gmail. > However, SMS has been required for quite some time now > to *CREATE* a new gmail account. There was a thread a > few months back regarding creation. And to date, I've not > been able to create a new gmail account without SMS from > any exit anywhere on the planet. Nor from any residential > DHCP pool I have access to. > > >> I'd bet, from the Google message about "unusual activity," it was > >> because the exit node wasn't in the same country I used when created > > Yeah, they like to pop up red warning banners for avid travelers. > I just hit dismiss, no SMS junk required. > > > In once case, it happened while I was using a pseudonym to contibute > > to another open source project and ask questions on a mailinglist. > > I've never had any problems sending any message anywhere, at all. > Only with new account creation. And the occaisional dismissed nag > notice. > > > clicked through the help links and filled out some form explaining my > > desire for strong pseudonymity, and they lifted the block without a > > cell #. > > When I try creating a new account, without providing an SMS or > other number, there is a form to fill out. I pick "don't have phone" or > "don't want to give number" and explain the same. They ignore it. > And if I recall, the account is left in a locked state. And since, rightly, > no secondary address was provided, they can't reach me anyways. > And any cool account name you came up with dies locked with it too. > > No offense to the list, but fuck google. With all their supposed > brain power you'd think they could come up with something > a little less brutal than a sledgehammer. Then again, I don't > blame them... the GECOS, user, pass, contact, recovery, > and mail content is certainly worth many millions more when > combined with a phone number. Pigs. > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > -- Economics is not practised as a science. Rather, it is a pretentious way to covertly promote political prejudices. - Fred Harrison _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk