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Rambler OP wrote

I also have a paranoid.mail address, but it's unclear to me if they're still "around". Although I was able to get the clearnet mailservers working fine, and I love the pop3 access, I wanted to use it over TOR and no matter what, with the information provided, I couldn't get Thunderbird to accept the TOR mailservers.

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Rambler OP wrote

As someone who has never gotten "into" crypto, that's' more or less my ignorant understanding on it. I know it's more complex than that based on skimming some articles in the past but it seems like an accountability / ledger system in a sense.

Hopefully someone will come along and hit us with some knowledge though.

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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by RichardButte in Life Pro Tip by Rambler

Wait until you learn about food dehydrators. You can dehyrdate just about anything, things like pasta and chili do well. Sometimes you need to separate the ingediants, sometimes you don't.

Just add hot/boiling water and let it soak. Boom, you're eating homemade chicken fettuccine in the middle of the woods miles from civilization on a backpacking trip.

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Rambler OP wrote

The next step is rather to have personal end-to-end, peer-to-peer communication systems.

Which some platforms have, it seems, but then you're stuck communicating to only those within that platform. I believe ZeroNet has something similar, where you could technically email me at nxm9c2wjbjlhjsrc@zeroid.bit but I never check it because no one ever uses it. You can also mail me on I2P's network as well, at (I forget) @mail.i2p, but once again, it's network specific.

Whoever can get the major networks and up-and-comers to agree upon some sort of standardized P2P E2E encrypted mail system that can be accessed from anywhere, then you'd have a winner.

But I doubt that's possible with all the various networks working hard to implement their own vision.

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Rambler OP wrote

This article reads like an NSA operation to convince you to move away from a Swiss based provider (where they can't intercept) to a provider that is based in Germany (a 14-eyes country) or similar jurisdiction where US intel has easy access.

It very well could be, and it's hard telling in this day and age. I just stumbled across the article and thought it was worth sharing and discussing.

For what it's worth, I use protonmail myself.

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RichardButte wrote

Reply to Life Pro Tip by Rambler

If you put boiled spaghetti in a tumble drier you extract the moisture and they dry out again so you can save it for later. If you're not in a rush you can hang every individual spaghett to dry, they become straight when dried and they'll even fit back in the original packs!

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RichardButte wrote

E-mail is outdated, the steps required to get truly safe e-mailing is beyond regular users reach and trusting third parties to handle the technical security isn't the right way forward. Look at Tutanota and the recent forced backdooring.

The next step is rather to have personal end-to-end, peer-to-peer communication systems.

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smooth_jazz wrote

Actually, any email provider+PGP is good, but incoming mail may not always be encrypted, and trusting the provider with your keys is a REALLY bad idea. Paranoid does this without storing your private keys like protonmail. They have a no-webmail policy (you'll need a mail client) and encrypt all incoming mail (if unencrypted) with your public key which is the only key they store.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to comment by boobs in Requirement for a exit node? by Jogger

the primary requirement for an exit node that no one tells you about:

balls of steel.

Has anyone ever been arrested or held legally liable for running an exit node (in a modern country, like the US/CA/UK/Etc)?

I've thought about running one as well since my server provider is okay with it as long as I handle the abuse complaints which is basically copy/pasting a cookie cutter response on how it's an exit-node and not possible to tell the origin of whatever it is the complaint is about.

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Rambler OP wrote

After a quick review I'll say: It's alright. A bit buggy. But hey, it's new. Hopefully in time it'll work those issues out.

It's never a bad thing to have options so I'm glad to see it regardless.

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