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Originally Posted by ChinaLamb
At least for a while, we have to assume nothing is safe online.
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Indeed... '
any unencrypted message sent over the Internet is being delivered to every intelligence service in the world
However, there are a couple of interesting services in development that hope to change this...
Heml.is
Aims to take the pain out of PGP & create a beautiful UI (it does
look very nice). Importantly the encryption keys are held only by the users, servers will be in a privacy friendly location and messages aggregated
(?) to avoid metadata collection. Also, the developers are the folks from Pirate Bay - probably the people least likely to comply with data collection orders that they're forbidden from revealing to the public.
Mailpile
Focusing on a
'decentralised' and encrypted email service. You hold the encryption keys and host the email server on your devices, giving better control of your data (
screenshots)
Fastmail
posted about the difficulty of getting people to actually pay for new services. Both of the above projects were crowdsource funded and reached
150% of their targets:
- Hemlis: $152,300 contributed by 10,450 people in 3 days.
- Mailpile: $163,064 reached in 5 weeks.
It appears people are willing to pay for privacy.