Siddhatha:
On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 11:26:49 AM UTC-7,
[email protected] wrote:
Dear qubes-users,
I am long time qubes follower and user. I apologize in advance if anyone
feels this request is spam.
I am looking for two invite codes needed to sign up to anonymous
riseup.net email service.
I am hoping there are some qubes users who are riseup.net account
holders.
Can anyone please send me a couple of invite codes that I might be able
to sign up?
Thank you in advance.
I am using QUbes several years this is my first p3ost to this group,m hope I am
compliant with the regs and am not inadertantly in viol eg top-posting, etc.
So I am wondering if riseup is not inferior to protonmail or tutanota because
(1) riseup is ideologically committed to some kind of left/dyi/anarchist
worldview and might regard almost anyone not in total agreement with the latest
poliitically correct consensus as evil and possibly subjected therefore to some
kind of discriminatory process (2) riseup is basically waving a red flag at
virtually all Western intelligence agencies as well as every form of right wing
or alt-right in that it's antifa-esque orientation is unduly provocative. (*)
It may not have the level of professionalism available eg at protonmail
although its' current look and feel is a big imrpovement .
Adside from that, the lag time and now apparently the need for in vite codes is
kind of ridiculous. Just some thoughts herre...
My two cents on riseup, and private and anonymous emails..
I'm not part of the riseup collective so i can't speak for them, but i
do have a riseup account and i'm at least somewhat familiar with them.
Riseup is a leftist horizontal collective, basically libertarian
socialist / anarchist. They don't want anyone diametrically opposed to
their worldview (like supporters of capitalism, Leninists..) using their
services. They maintain their services primarily as tools for leftist
activists and organizers to communicate securely.
But i wouldn't necessarily tie riseup to "political correctness" which
is a culture war thing, and a whole different set of issues.
Whether you think riseup is an intelligence agency honeypot or has
otherwise been compromised is up to you.
But i haven't noticed a "lag time" for riseup services. (They offer
several services other than email by the way, that are worth checking out.)
And you used to be able to sign up for a "red" account, required for
email, by contacting them directly, but now you need invite codes, which
i'm pretty sure is for anti-spam reasons.
Regarding other email providers, finding a good anonymous (and tor
friendly) free email provider is a challenge.
Riseup: tor friendly and a very good provider i think, but with the
invite code requirement it's not exactly anonymous.
Protonmail: well respected, but free accounts don't support POP3 which i
need.
Bitmessage.ch (bitmailendavkbec.onion): tor friendly, supports POP3, but
new registrations have been down for a while. Also requires an outside
email address from another provider in order to register.
VFEmail: they were hacked, old accounts are borked, new registrations
disabled, maybe forever.
Mail2Tor (mail2tor2zyjdctd.onion): webmail only.
elude.in (eludemaillhqfkh5.onion): they want verification of an outside
email address, but that can be skipped. Webmail works but POP3 doesn't
(apparently if you pay it's supported?)
danwin1210.me
(danielas3rtn54uwmofdo3x2bsdifr47huasnmbgqzfrec5ubupvtpid.onion): very
tor friendly, everything is done through a hidden service, no webmail
(POP3/IMAP only). Registration is very easy, no outside email address
required.
But anonymity is not the same as privacy. The above providers are quite
anonymous since it's through tor, but there's no reason to believe
they're really private. They say they respect privacy of course but
that's just a promise that means nothing. They and anyone they give
access to can easily read all of your emails unless they're encrypted.
If you really want private email (as opposed to anonymous email), your
best bet is probably to host your own email server (and always use PGP
encryption).
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Jackie
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