Totally Private Email

Very few people realize how utterly public the standard email message is, especially non-web-based email. If you use a program like Outlook, every time you check your mail you send your username and password -- unencrypted -- over the Internet.

In an age of rampant crime, crumbling empires, and increasing fascism, it is essential that close-knit groups form trust+privacy circles by adopting scientifically validated encryption rings as a stopgap to wanton attacks on both one's privacy and due process.

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On Secure Email - Version 2.0

Very few people realize how utterly public the standard email message is, especially non-web-based email. If you use a program like Outlook, every time you check your mail you send your username and password -- unencrypted -- over the Internet.

Additionally, email messages themselves are totally unencrypted, and due to a rash of anti-civil-rights judgements over the last two years in particular, it is perfectly legal to a) record messages that pass through your server, b) analyze messages for keywords and flag accordingly (carnivore, gmail, etc), or even c) use in a court of law intercepted messages...as long as you actually own the server on to which the message passed.

Most people naively assume that e-mail is somehow more secure than postal mail, probably due to their inoculation with "secure" (very relatively) online order forms and computer terminals. In reality, the email protocol has not changed very much at all since the 1960s, far before the birth of the modern Internet. Compound with this insecurity is that an average email message must 'hop' through over 300 separate servers to reach your friend's inbox. Indeed, email should be considered a postcard that can be (and is -- ::shudder::) effortlessly read by literally hundreds of computers (and potentially humans) before it gets from point A to point Z.

Email headers can be effortlessly tweaked to display any thing you want, in literally one line of code. Want others to see the email bill@microsoft.com? That's really simple, tho getting mail from that address would be difficult.

With the rampant privacy and identity problems inherent in the system, 3rd-party schemes exist to both give 99% content secrecy and 100% user-identity verification. And you can use this system for ANY online information you compose. This message utilizes by far the most popular, and secure, method, PGP (Pretty Good Protection). Should you verify this message with any of a multitude of PGP software, you would see that it was, indeed, composed by a HopeSeekr of xMule and has not been modified.

If two people have each other's public PGP keys, very strong encryption can be employed that would technically take the US military's combined might roughly 25 years to crack using non-secret algorithms.

In an age of rampant crime, crumbling empires, and increasing fascism, it is essential that close-knit groups form trust+privacy circles by adopting scientifically validated encryption rings as a stopgap to wanton attacks on both one's privacy and due process.

Probably the easiest way to get started is to read the straight-forward HOWTO at
http://www.it.tamhsc.edu/hipaa/pgp.php

HopeSeekr of xMule

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Created: 5 November 2004
Last Modified: 12 March 2005
Copyright(c) 2004-2005 Theodore R. Smith | www.xmule.ws
License: Creative Commons Attribution License*
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