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Phillip McCleod

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11. ah, but all is not lost.. consider..

Fri Jun 14, 2013, 11:54 PM

Jun 2013

say i want to send a secure message. i have a hotmail account, sure, but in a minute i could set up a throwaway account using a masked IP and pop an encrypted message in it with a 4096-bit key and it would be for all intents and purposes unbreakable. if i lost my key, i could never recover it, and neither could anyone else. there's stronger encryption than that readily available to anyone who wants it bad enough, and you can pop it into an email and send it.

https://www.hushmail.com/ does a pretty decent job of just that, with much weaker, but still passable, crypto.

Register and always use that hushmail account through Tor and you will also mask your trail. Log in once from the wrong browser though, and you are popped.

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Face It:: The Internet is Yelling Across a Crowded Room [View all] Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 OP

Exactly, and people are now flocking to programs like Warpy Jun 2013 #1

nailed it imo. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #5

No It Isn't ... ThePhilosopher04 Jun 2013 #2

ok maybe it's like sending a message by dogwhistle across a room crowded.. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #3

A dangerous assumption... ElboRuum Jun 2013 #6

exactly. that 'someone' was Manning and now Snowden. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #14

Uncle Sam is the least of my concerns in this new era. ElboRuum Jun 2013 #15

that's it exactly.. when we send messages electronically.. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #17

We've been told for years. silverweb Jun 2013 #4

thank you, yes. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #8

That turned out well! silverweb Jun 2013 #10

me too! Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #18

Precisely. ElboRuum Jun 2013 #9

Open society? silverweb Jun 2013 #12

Narcissism... ElboRuum Jun 2013 #16

yep. exactly why i used the analogy of yelling across a crowed bar. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #20

Whispering is hardly a remedy for what appears to await us Vinnie From Indy Jun 2013 #7

ah, but all is not lost.. consider.. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #11

Your wisdom is but pearls before swine in my case Vinnie From Indy Jun 2013 #13

Well in fact no one is even listening unless they have just cause. DCBob Jun 2013 #19

not true at all. not even slightly or sort of true. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #21

"listening" as in recording conversations/chats/emails, etc. DCBob Jun 2013 #22

wrong again. Phillip McCleod Jun 2013 #23

you fail to understand the issue.. DCBob Jun 2013 #24