[cryptome] Re: cryptome compromised?
- From: Aftermath <aftermath.thegreat@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:16:35 -0700
if youre serious about secure email you can always set up your own
pgp mail server
for a while i was paying for countermail. its a disklesd webmail server
that boots from a read-only cd rom with a public keysize of 4096 bits. you
can also pay with bitcoin which had me sold on it.
i no longer use it because they use a java applet for the pgp functions
which i dont really like because its not at all open so iits not open for a
security assesment by the community.
after 6 months of using it i happened to find their FAQ. Turns out all
their private keys are stored on their server. you can remove ypur private
key and back it up to an encrypted flash drive or whatever for safe
keeping, but i really wish they would had made that more clear when i
signed up.
theres also the posdibility that the whole thing is a honeytrap. this
assesment, in part or whole, can be said about most suposidly secure
webmail services. some are even worse like hushmail where encryption doesnt
mean shit if they give up your private keys because the judge signed a
warrant.
i have higher hopes for new decentralized technologies. im proud that i can
say i am founder and financial backer of the decentralized identity
software that will be known as keyhotee when it comes out
i still say that there should be an open source, multi platform encrypted
decentralized voip program with text messaging that can be used over wifi.
an anonymization feature would be icing on the cake. of course that would
be a tall order, but a guy can dream.
On Monday, June 9, 2014, <shelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014, at 08:26 PM, Jarrod B wrote:
>
> > Well this has really put me in a bad mood today. I've never really had
> > the
> > need for a secure email address, but I think I've been inspired to set
> > one
> > up,......
> >
> > Not happy and sensing something sinister going on.
> >
>
> Don't despair just yet. There may be a simpler explanation.
>
> Re: using free email: The spooks just take everything anyway (as the
> fiber optic splitters in Room 641A have shown, etc.), but one makes it
> much easier for the bastards by using google/yahoo/msft's "free" email
> (where the companies are compelled to be complicit, and *you* are the
> product), and by not using encryption. Sure, the ciphers have probably
> been intentionally weakened, but why make it easy for them?
>
> I've been using a non-USA email provider for many years, but it really
> makes no difference when they tap the Internet backbone and just steal
> everything. If you have need to transmit sensitive communication, doing
> it online is just not safe.
>
> -S
>
>
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:04 PM, <> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014, at 07:01 PM, Aftermath wrote:
> > > > yea, i think we are all curious as to the nature of the outage. is it
> > > > just
> > > > me or are mirrors down as well?
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is the only one that's up & has recent activity (akashmanews.com
> > > mirror's archive is a year old):
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Monday, June 9, 2014, Maarten Billemont <> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Does cryptome provide any sort of canary?
> > > > >
> > > > > — Maarten Billemont (lhunath) —
> > > > > me: – business: –
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Jun 9, 2014, at 20:35, John Young <
> > > > > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','');>> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, down.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
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