How do they deal with legal jurisdiction? Technically the government can still subpoena and they'd have to turn over the documents in the persons account, including backups. I "pine" for "Sealand" but even then one would have to trust the owners of Sealand not to snoop. Again, the best solution is probably run your own.
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Josh Rickmar <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, December 9, 2010 2:37 pm, Scott McEachern wrote: > > On 12/09/10 10:01, lh wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> what are the good available alternatives (security/privacy) for gmail > >> you're using? > >> > >> Cheers! > >> > > > > As many others suggested, using your own mail server that you control is > > the *best* way, but that doesn't answer your question. > > > > I know people that use Lavabit.com for free email and they swear by it. > > (I use my own mail server, thank-you.) > > > > The lavabit page boasts of privacy ("a system so secure > > <http://lavabit.com/secure.html> that even our administrators can t read > > your e-mail") but you can never really know unless you're an admin > > there. They offer encrypted connections/ports to send/receive on top of > > port 25. > > > > HTH, > > > > - Scott > > > > > > Their encryption is only for paid users, not free accounts. > > I have an "enhanced" account with them that I use for my personal email. > I have the asynchronous encryption option enabled, but yeah, there's no > real way of knowing for sure. > > No complaints about the service though. > > Josh
