carlo von lynX: > One thing is the dragnet mass surveillance that feeds into > XKEYSCORE for free. Hosting your mail at riseup or gmail means the > contents or the fact you've been using crypto with somebody will > get indexed for later use anytime in your life.
Well yeah assuming I am careless about how I do things and for that they can identify who I am. > > The other thing is targeted interception of GSM traffic near the > chancellor's office from the top of the US embassy building. We > know that the 5 eyes can probably work themselves into most of the > e-mail systems on earth, but at least it is an active act of > intrusion - not provided by free by a regional law. I do not think I need to say that there are a myriad of ways to monitor and spy on someone especially when the desire exists to do it. > > If two people have their accounts with a well chosen provider > outside the US, there is a vague possibility they can exchange > messages that do not end up in XKEYSCORE. Even if they end up in > somebody else's dragnet, then at least they're distributed better. Does it matter where the accounts are located? You still have to trust the provider. Anyway XKEYSCORE should not be a problem when the information you decide to send out in to the wild is handled properly. > My general rule is we should all stop using SMTP, so I don't make > recommendations on any specific offerings. I have my own server > with my little collective, and that is a pain as well, because in > this unfree Internet running your own server means getting bullied > by the cloud servers for being a potential spammer or malware > host. Looks like your "general rule" is a hard one to obey am I right? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk