Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-23 Thread mampir
I used for all my personal porpouse gmail for years and now i regreat i did it because they know all about me and i think they builded my psychological profile. You shouldn't regret or worry about such thing, but focus you energy on making things better. :) Installing your own mail

[Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread debianlinux
I read that the leader of Lavabit does not use email, his stated : 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'. What are the dangers that a citizen can encounter using for personal use for example gmail? I used for all my personal porpouse gmail for years and now i regreat

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Email is pretty risky itself but using google is much worse. They know who you are, what you like, who you associate with. And if you also use(d) other google services besides the email, they have a very complete picture of you. They probably know much more about you than your closest

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread geomaticasocial
Hi guys. I think no so many people take into account the social use of the tech tools. For example, some years ago I knew the case of a girl who was jailed because she used Tor. Beyond the rigth to anonimize our work on internet, I wonder: Anybody warned to that girl about the consecuences

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread ianme0
In the contrary case, I was thinking... it is possible that, if a person tries to protect himself, (mail cripting, no social newtorks, tor, personal mail server, and other things etc...), end up in the crosshairs of the powerful people/companies? I mean of normal people, not someone who

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread nuevodesorden
You can host your own server or use one of this recomendations: https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems Nevermind if yours contacts are 100% gmail users or almost all of them, still google can track your messages, but you can ecrypt the info tho.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread pinmaritim
https://www.enigmail.net/documentation/handbook.php https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread maestro
Well said Lembas! I would just like to make it absolutely clear that what you refer to as complete picture is a complete psychological profile! Some dangerous scary shit that is.. p.s - I hear very often this I don't care or I have nothing to hide so my answer tends to be: Oh, you don't

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread maestro
https://riseup.net http://www.autistici.org/en/index.html If someone sends me a mail using gmail I answer that if he/she wants to keep any further mail communication with me they will have to signup for a decent mail service. I usually point them to openmailbox. Between giving away all

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread pinmaritim
Spot on megurineturilli :) there is also http://thehiddenwiki.org/: http://bitmailendavkbec.onion – swiss email http://365u4txyqfy72nul.onion/ – Anonymous E-mail sevice. You can only communicate with other users currently using this service. So tell all your friends about it!

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the dangers of using email?

2015-05-05 Thread onpon4
Food for thought: Most people use big corporate servers for email, like Google. So if you communicate with these people, which you probably do, then these corporations, and likely your local government by proxy, can find out who you communicate with and when. However, if you and someone