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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 28 Jul 2016, 02:10 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 7,886
Posted By libCognition
When an e-mail provider violates the privacy of...

When an e-mail provider violates the privacy of users, and then emaildiscussions.com censors the discussion, it does the users a disservice. It makes emaildiscussions.com a bad place to talk about...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 24 Jul 2016, 06:32 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 2,157
Posted By libCognition
judge ordered Yahoo to explain how it recovered "deleted" email

Full story (from the comp.mail.misc newsgroup):

snews://nntp.aioe.org:563/b0c6700b3c89dd7715c66a4e4107d8de@msgid.frell.theremailer.net

In short, a cocaine dealer got caught smuggling 5 tons. Yahoo...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 16 Jul 2016, 04:43 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 7,656
Posted By libCognition
All good qualities, but caveat-- Yandex has...

All good qualities, but caveat-- Yandex has become unstable. They have started blocking Tor with this not-so-temporary message:

Blocking all Tor exit nodes for weeks is either a sign of...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 17 Apr 2016, 07:19 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 12,006
Posted By libCognition
Safe-mail is far worse than anything you...

Safe-mail is far worse than anything you describe. Safe-mail is, hands-down, unbeatable in a competition of unreliability, poor communication, and incompetence. They should be boycotted and sued...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 23 Mar 2016, 01:12 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,323
Posted By libCognition
The rock-stupid terrorists using social...

The rock-stupid terrorists using social networking operationally are only a threat to themselves.

The slightly more wise terrorists will use it only non-operationally to connect with...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 22 Mar 2016, 01:01 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,960
Posted By libCognition
I cannot believe there would be merit to the idea...

I cannot believe there would be merit to the idea that domain name popularity matters.

But if it does matter, it could be the opposite of what you expect. What's the role they're filling? If it's...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 5 Feb 2016, 01:47 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,179
Posted By libCognition
I suspect you won't like my answer, but fwiw I'll...

I suspect you won't like my answer, but fwiw I'll mention grepmail. This is a PERL-based linux tool that specializes in searching e-mail. You give it one (or more) regular expressions, each of...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 5 Feb 2016, 01:15 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,449
Posted By libCognition
I wouldn't go near anything offered by witopia...

I wouldn't go near anything offered by witopia with a barge pole.

They nanny their VPN users. They block client-initiated traffic. When I called to complain, requesting that they not block my...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 31 Jan 2016, 10:46 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 14,475
Posted By libCognition
Again, when you say "easier", you are relying on...

Again, when you say "easier", you are relying on security by obscurity. Adversaries are more motivated than you realize. It's a bad idea to have your security model reliant on an adversaries lack...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 31 Jan 2016, 03:19 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 14,475
Posted By libCognition
If you're opening up ports to use a mail client,...

If you're opening up ports to use a mail client, you're doing something wrong. The firewall only needs to open ephemeral ports for the session. It's the same for webmail, but webmail needs the...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 29 Jan 2016, 04:42 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,323
Posted By libCognition
No, actually what the NSA loves is that article,...

No, actually what the NSA loves is that article, and your post bringing people to it. Any FUD to frighten people away from using sensible security is in their interest.

All metadata is being...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 27 Jan 2016, 04:29 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 14,475
Posted By libCognition
I don't see how that knowledge is useful for...

I don't see how that knowledge is useful for understanding any of the webmail vulnerabilities I mentioned. But if you have experience with having your pop3/imap account compromised, let's hear about...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 27 Jan 2016, 02:33 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 14,475
Posted By libCognition
It sounds like you didn't become proficient with...

It sounds like you didn't become proficient with mutt. Mutt has a big learning curve, which initially makes it difficult. But that reverses once you're proficient. Once all the common commands are...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 27 Jan 2016, 02:05 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 14,475
Posted By libCognition
Webmail cannot come close to the level of...

Webmail cannot come close to the level of security inherent in non-webmail. These are the security problems with webmail:

* There are a variety of ways to MitM an HTTPS connection.
* Logins from...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 23 Jan 2016, 08:15 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 14,475
Posted By libCognition
Mail clients are more likely to outlive webmail...

Mail clients are more likely to outlive webmail than the contrary.

In short, webmail is for novices who need a gui and do not care about security. Going forward, webmail will survive as long as...
Forum: The Technical Zone... 29 Nov 2015, 03:38 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,216
Posted By libCognition
Namesilo is better than namecheap. I switched...

Namesilo is better than namecheap.

I switched from namecheap to namesilo because namecheap became tor-hostile. Namecheap also charges extra for privacy (whois guard doesn't cost them anything extra...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 28 Nov 2015, 09:43 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 13,766
Posted By libCognition
safe-mail.net is far too fragile with absurd...

safe-mail.net is far too fragile with absurd amounts of downtime due to incompetence to use for any kind of correspondence. I don't even think it's reliable enough to use as an experimental test...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 20 Nov 2015, 03:02 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,207
Posted By libCognition
Socially responsible, competent senders include a...

Socially responsible, competent senders include a plaintext MIME part. When the sender does something stupid (e.g. sends only HTML), text-only MUAs will render it using a text browser like lynx...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 17 Nov 2015, 02:53 PM
Replies: 183
Views: 159,584
Posted By libCognition
That article says protonmail initially refused...

That article says protonmail initially refused the ransom, and then eventually paid. But this was an escalating ransom, so it seems the ransom paid was not the demanded amount. Some articles said...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 15 Nov 2015, 11:02 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,265
Posted By libCognition
Namesilo is better than namecheap in terms of...

Namesilo is better than namecheap in terms of privacy and price. Namecheap is tor-hostile, and also charges extra for the privacy guard. Namesilo allows tor, and includes whois privacy for free.
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 15 Nov 2015, 04:05 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,290
Posted By libCognition
How are folks checking to see if an attacked site...

How are folks checking to see if an attacked site is up? I would like to check without adding to the attack myself.

There are these two centralized sites:

* isup.me
*...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 3 Nov 2015, 02:46 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 28,949
Posted By libCognition
Interesting tid-bit: Safe-mail essentially...

Interesting tid-bit:

Safe-mail essentially recommends/expects people to stop using the service. Of course, they don't really have to tell us that - it's obvious. But it's a bit perverse to call...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 30 Oct 2015, 01:17 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 11,411
Posted By libCognition
This thread exists because people are choosing...

This thread exists because people are choosing the wrong kettle of fish. There's a better kettle fish, and users should be aware of it. The first port of call should be the better fish kettle,...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 30 Oct 2015, 12:40 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 11,411
Posted By libCognition
Usenet (as a tool) is absolutely superior to...

Usenet (as a tool) is absolutely superior to web-based forums. It's not even close, not in the slightest.

* Web forums require hundreds of thousands of webmasters each securing and maintaining a...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 29 Oct 2015, 01:43 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 11,411
Posted By libCognition
Usenet is better than walled-garden forums (web...

Usenet is better than walled-garden forums (web and mailing lists). I say that in principle, neglecting the fact that many newsgroups are ghost towns. Mechanically, usenet is superior because you...
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