On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 05:13:46PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > Free email account sign up - ProtonMail > [Search domain protonmail.com/signup] https://protonmail.com/signup > Select Your ProtonMail Account Type. ProtonMail is a free email service for > the public good. You can help support online privacy by selecting a paid > account. Your contribution helps us support more users and continue to > develop ProtonMail as free and open source software.
While I currently use a free Protonmail account, I did pay to sign up with them when they started, years ago. Usually I just use my own email server, but for sensitive conversations I use Protonmail to Protonmail exclusively. And by sensitive, I don't mean "Illegal in the US in 2020", but what might mean trouble somewhere, someday, for me or the person I'm communicating with. Email through public channels is forever. If you want to discuss something with me away from prying eyes (now, or into an unknown future), get a Protonmail account NOW, when signing up for that does not raise a flag the way it will in a higher surveillance, higher paranoia future. Log in occasionally, surf a few static pages, log out, even if you are not expecting any emails. Just to establish a routine that you might need in the future. While some of us moan about recent US leaders (and their supporters moan about some of us), they are nowhere near the same league as Hitler and Himmler (yet). When one of those comes along, it may be too late to sign up for Protonmail without attracting "special attention." In such times, if you sent my home server email account something interpretable as subversive, I will disown you if interrogated. I don't bring this up to start a political wrangle, but to suggest that all of us, regardless of our position on the political spectrum, need a safe channel to talk. This email list, BTW, is NOT a safe channel. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
