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GhostMail Closes in September, Leaves Users Searching For Secure Email Alternatives (zdnet.com)
On September 1, "GhostMail will no longer provide secure email services unless you are an enterprise client," reports ZDNet. "According to the company, it is 'simply not worth the risk.'" GhostMail provided a free and anonymous "military encrypted" e-mail service based in Switzerland, and collected "as little metadata" as possible. But this week on its home page, GhostMail told its users "Since we started our project, the world has changed for the worse and we do not want to take the risk of supplying our extremely secure service to the wrong people... In general, we believe strongly in the right to privacy, but we have taken a strategic decision to only supply our platform and services to the enterprise segment."
GhostMail is referring their users to other free services like Protonmail as an alternative, but an anonymous Slashdot reader asks: What options does an average person have for non-NSA-spied-on email? I am sure there are still some Ghostmail competitors out there but I'm wondering if it's better to coax friends and family to use encryption within their given client (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, whatever...) And are there any options for hosting a "private" email service: inviting friends and family to use it and have it kind of hosted locally. Ghostmail-in-a-box or some such?
GhostMail is referring their users to other free services like Protonmail as an alternative, but an anonymous Slashdot reader asks: What options does an average person have for non-NSA-spied-on email? I am sure there are still some Ghostmail competitors out there but I'm wondering if it's better to coax friends and family to use encryption within their given client (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, whatever...) And are there any options for hosting a "private" email service: inviting friends and family to use it and have it kind of hosted locally. Ghostmail-in-a-box or some such?
...Today, press coverage that risks the ire of Fox News or ... are at similar risks of abusive, extra-judicial censorship with little safe recourse.
Citation needed. Fox News is just somewhat silly partisan news, like NBC News. When/how did they ever commit "extra-judicial censorship"? Or are they merely guilty by association?
Indeed. In fact, every person that gives up on privacy makes the TLA's jobs easier and increases their power. So please do not give up. These people are not who you want to rule the world.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
More likely: they are afraid that they will be suspected of helping suspected people that may be suspected terrorists that may in the future blow the whistle about secret invasive government programmes. Because just that tiny air of suspicion is nowadays more than enough to get the whole world against you (just being called "suspected terrorist" or "suspected terrorist associate" is in certain countries enough to take away any legal rights a normal suspect has, and put people in jail for months without even a formal charge against them).
By targeting corporate clients only, they can even brush away that risk of suspicion.