secure email

[mellowtigger]

I finally retrieved access to my very old Proton mailbox. It was unused for so long that they deleted all prior content. I am, however, still grandfathered for a "@protonmail.ch" email domain. Here in the USA, however, it's easier to tell someone "@protonmail.com".

Anyway, I generally approve of this review of their security features. While subject lines could still be uncovered by a government, the text body of an email sent from a Proton account to another Proton account should not be available to anyone but the Swiss government, and even then only if you have broken Swiss law. At least, according to Proton's own privacy report on this topic. Other email providers are listed here as additional options.

Anyway, if you ever need to send me a fully-private message, then you're welcome to message me at:

mellowtigger@protonmail.com

Additionally, someone sent me information about a new tech called Reticulum MeshChat. (Sorry, Dreamwidth tells me that I'm unable to message you back directly.) I'm still looking into it for messaging even when mainstream internet is down, using other local people to create a mini-net. I've seen articles and pages (like this recommendation) about various kinds of this stuff, which I think crossed everyone's mind back during Occupy. I'll look deeper into this solution when I have more mental bandwidth. It looks potentially useful at first glance.

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

I don't have yr technical chops, but I, too, have been wondering how I'll message when the Internet goes down.