Have you made efforts to privatize your email

[skieur]

They sent these out at work a while ago. (They may be slightly dated)

Social Networking "Smart Cards"... (It's mostly common-sense type stuff.)

Facebook:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7FnNzrIGSXSVWI2Y211RE5IZ0U/edit?usp=sharing

Google+:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7FnNzrIGSXSeGRWNGltZFAwQzA/edit?usp=sharing

Very worthwhile but even better is use www.startpage.com instead of Google and like companies encrypt your Facebook info. that you want to keep more private.

By the way, I also learned while on the net, that Google searches are of LESS THAN 1 percent of the Internet.

 

[EIngerson]

That is a good starting point. I hope you have not intentionally or not, linked your real name to your usernames in accounts or used the same username in all accounts.

That's where a ton of people get overly concerned about the wrong thing. It's already too late. If you own a car, house, have credit, or have ever been to the DMV …...etc. your information is already out there. It's out of your control. Sure, you can add some layers to sift through for someone looking for your info, but it's there and available for anyone that wants it no matter how awesome your password is.

Actually any of the information you mention may be out there but most of it is incomplete and not up-to-date. My bank is in one city but I live 2 hours away in a village. My credit is in another location. Having a common name can also help create confusion. Even the police have contacted me related to my name but not me. My DMV is blank of any infractions or accidents and changes in employment are not up-to-date either.

The challenge for the individual who wants to retain their privacy is to isolate any of the personal info. that is out there. Passwords can be managed and computer generated and a different one for every use. E-mail can be masked and encrypted. If you shop on the Internet you can even mask your credit card info. when making purchases. Use several usernames and ensure that they cannot be linked to your real name. Don't fill out forms with info. that no company or no site needs to know.

Your name and address has limited value to some advertisers, organizations, etc. but if they can start putting a profile together on age (filled out for some site registrations), assets, politics, family info., medical issues, etc. then all the info. becomes much more useful.

If you are all over the Internet with your real name and the same username of all forums, then web tracking bugs, cookies, etc. can constantly track you and follow you with advertising and scams. On the other hand, if you don't use your real name on the net at all and use different usernames with slightly different "identities" then it becomes difficult if not impossible to LINK apparent personal info. together and relate it to ONE person.

We'll agree to disagree.

 

[skieur]

I use gmail. Have done for many years.

Have I read any T&C? Yes. Google's.
Any concerns? No.

I found that Google was getting less useful for finding the info. I was looking for and the fact that it was sharing/selling info. with/to advertisers and the government was the straw that broke the camel's back. I also noted that the Google approach was that of a single search engine.

www.startpage.com was outside the North American continent, totally private, stripped off personal info. from searches, and then submitted it to Google, so Google without the invasion of privacy.

Then I found an even better one that instead of a single search engine like Google, it searches 5 search engines at the same time as well as the net, while preserving privacy and security of personal info. That site is www.ixquick.com.

Google searches less than 1 percent of the web, while www.ixquick.com gets into the deep web beyond that 1 percent.

 

[manaheim]

Every single thing you put out there electronically, should be treated as if it was printed on a billboard across the street from the oval office.

 

[skieur]

Every single thing you put out there electronically, should be treated as if it was printed on a billboard across the street from the oval office.

True, but you can use the equivalent of "door locks". They don't prevent someone from getting in but they can sure create one heck of a lot of discouragement.

I found an email site with customized security and extremely advanced, above military grade encryption that the government has not broken. Its location, out of North American also helps, in a country with very strong privacy laws. Their info. indicates that they will keep their security and privacy programming at top level.

 

[IByte]

**** 3 email accounts and I use one as a spambox.

 

[skieur]

**** 3 email accounts and I use one as a spambox.

I hope none of those email accounts lead back to your true one and talking about using one as a "spambox", there actually is a site called trashmail.com

There are several approaches:

1. deal with an email service that does NOT record the ISP of mail coming in and does not store any data/content
2. use a disposable email account to register for an email account that you intend to use.
3. use a proxy when accessing your email account
4. encrypt your email
5. mask your email use

 

[IByte]

I hope none of those email accounts lead back to your true one.

There are several approaches:

1. deal with an email service that does NOT record the ISP of mail coming in and does not store any data/content
2. use a disposable email account to register for an email account that you intend to use.
3. use a proxy when accessing your email account
4. encrypt your email
5. mask your email use

Lol no using tor while my virtual proxy is being built. Esxi 5.5 is the only way to go for a hypervisor.

 

[skieur]

I hope none of those email accounts lead back to your true one.

There are several approaches:

1. deal with an email service that does NOT record the ISP of mail coming in and does not store any data/content
2. use a disposable email account to register for an email account that you intend to use.
3. use a proxy when accessing your email account
4. encrypt your email
5. mask your email use

Lol no using tor while my virtual proxy is being built. Esxi 5.5 is the only way to go for a hypervisor.

Tor projects are funded by the department of defense, so word around is that a back door way around the encryption was inserted into the program. That seemed to be confirmed when the FBI with a bulk warrant seized a very large amount of TOR data.

Whether this sort of snooping concerns you or not is another matter.

 

[rexbobcat]

Lol actually that is a 100% accurate.

Same here. If you have more than two of those things going on in your life then damn, I'm sorry.

 

[TheLost]

Ha.. There is no such thing as email privacy/security.

I suggest if your worried about it.. Read up on a company called 'Lavabit' and see what they say.

Lavabit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lavabit

If somebody wants to see what your doing online... they will find out.

PS. My company attaches a disclaimer automatically to all outgoing email. Not for security.. but for legal reasons.

 

[skieur]

Ha.. There is no such thing as email privacy/security.

I suggest if your worried about it.. Read up on a company called 'Lavabit' and see what they say.

Lavabit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lavabit

If somebody wants to see what your doing online... they will find out.

PS. My company attaches a disclaimer automatically to all outgoing email. Not for security.. but for legal reasons.

I have email privacy/security partly because my service is OUTSIDE the US (and North America for that matter) and not subject to US law. It cannot provide data to anyone legal or not because it does NOT record data, does NOT record ISP numbers and uses a far stronger encryption system than Lavabit.
Moreover it cannot provide any encryption keys because it does not have any.

 

[IByte]

Tor projects are funded by the department of defense, so word around is that a back door way around the encryption was inserted into the program. That seemed to be confirmed when the FBI with a bulk warrant seized a very large amount of TOR data.

Whether this sort of snooping concerns you or not is another matter.

Nothing you can do when the gov is downloading the entire net.

 

[TheLost]

I have email privacy/security partly because my service is OUTSIDE the US (and North America for that matter) and not subject to US law. It cannot provide data to anyone legal or not because it does NOT record data, does NOT record ISP numbers and uses a far stronger encryption system than Lavabit.
Moreover it cannot provide any encryption keys because it does not have any.

Once you send an email... its not private any more. Have you ever done a 'traceroute' to see all the points your data visits?

Welcome to the 'Bumblehive'..... This place is literally in my back yard (i'm on the other side of the hill in the picture)..

NSA Utah Data Center - Serving Our Nation's Intelligence Community

Love this quote from the site!!

We are happy to report that we "dodged a bullet" recently when President Obama gave his January 17th speech on NSA "reforms". We were all ready to provide complete transparency about the current operating status of the Utah Data Center, but happily now it looks like we won't have to!

There is no such thing as email privacy..

Note to any government official reading this: I 100% support your efforts! And if you are hiring Sr. Software Developers (aka.. Spy's) to work at the Bumblehive i would love an Interview! PM me for my contact information

 

[skieur]

Tor projects are funded by the department of defense, so word around is that a back door way around the encryption was inserted into the program. That seemed to be confirmed when the FBI with a bulk warrant seized a very large amount of TOR data.

Whether this sort of snooping concerns you or not is another matter.

Nothing you can do when the gov is downloading the entire net.

Sure there is. Only STORED personal information can be downloaded or hacked. Get rid of your STORED personal information on the the Internet and avoid adding to it and you keep your privacy and secure your credit and banking use.