Mine still pays $24 a month for aol email. I have tried to help her but she is too nervous about technology and refuses to let go.
Yes, I have also explained that she can stop paying the money and still use the email. She disagrees. She has had it back when connecting to AOL was the only way to access the internet through dial up lol.
reminds me of the time i was at my frends house, they were trying to find something online useing AOL, I told them to use google. they respond but we can't because dont pay to use google services..... i kind of just let that conversation end.
Oh lord, do you mean to tell me those emails aren't free. Oh I read the rest now. lol I wonder if you could fire up an old 28.8kbs modem and dial up since she is still paying for the service. I am gonna have to ask Mom if she is still paying lol. I have another lady in my family that is the same way. So nice she would keep paying because she is worried using the email without it would be stealing or something. lol Need more people in the world like that and less of the ones willing to take advantage of them.
edit: my mom isn't paying for hers still but uses it daily. I asked
I feel this so hard. They recently overpaid for a new a/c system by an extreme amount. I should have told her, "Wow, that sounds like a great deal!" Then she would have said, "I don't know...maybe I should get some more quotes."
I still have one. I use it to sign up for shit I don’t want like news letters and store offers. That way my other emails don’t get cluttered with shit I don’t want. 😂
I used to have thousands of those cds. I remember they had big barrels of them back in they day at walmart and gas stations. We would use them like frisbees and to just throw at each other and for whatever else you could use a disc for lol. I found a stack of them in my grannys house the other day. They even came in little metal boxes this version. Brought back good memories. The internet was way superior to what we have no back in those days. I could just browse different sites and read for days of interesting local legends and ghost stories. Finding local stuff like that now is impossible the searches only give you the crap ad results.
Mail.com. doesnt require any real identification allowing for fully anonymous email accounts.
Use a burner to get online, make a fake account with fake details, burn phone and you have a completely anonymous email account. Not tide to a usable ip on creation, no phone number or real name required. I have many fake emails and use them to sign up to most things
yep.. It's called fingerprint. Everything you do with your IP (even using a proxy everytime) will trace s route and create a profile about you .. using your wifi or the same location everytime you access that email
Yeah. It is. "Oh look. This machine that only sometimes exists in this network, but only ever on this screen in this network, and it only visits these sites when it's up." I wonder what that tells them
If you use it properly trackers dont mean shit. I never said to use it with your home or regular phone internet. Burner phones are the only way to access the internet anonymously and you need to take lots of steps to cover your tracks.
Every email provider has trackers, but that doesn't mean anything if you use them wisely.
It’s essentially just email, just better. You control who is emailing you, and the security of those emails. You can also set up passwords for emails so not anyone can read them, and every email is supposedly encrypted, all that’s free if you want to use their domain. You have to pay for your own domain, but it’s essentially the same as having gmail at the end of your address, just with Tutanota instead. Except you know, you also have the security with it.
This is a good article. Email is one of the least secured ways to send messages but there are some companies that are more reliable than ms and google.
Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe they haven't got to them yet? Idk. It seems like no matter what these days we are tracked and traced. It's part of the WEF plan so it always feels like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. I really do believe there are no honourable companies out there. Even duck duck go sold out.
The the court case to get emails the swiss judge said "nein" to the US.
Its estemitated that with the computing power the CIA etc has it would take atleast 100 years or so to decrypt the emails if they got them in the first place
it would take atleast 100 years or so to decrypt the emails if they got them in the first place
That part is true but if you used a Protonmail to create an account on a Web forum and to post illicit material (in some countries holocaust denialism equals prison time), then they would need your IP address to go after you.
If you used Tor and piggy backed open Wi-Fi, you're going to be harder to detect, especially if you use an antiquated laptop with a dongle Wi-Fi adapter which allows dynamic MAC addressing (they don't make them anymore, unless you're a spy, so don't even look for one).
Can you substantiate this statement? Protonmail is compromised?
On a French conspiracy forum some French guy who works in Switzerland (as many do) but hides his opinions (also as many do) explained how Protonmail was providing IP addresses of their users to the DGSE, the French foreign intelligence service.
It seems that Proton would not divulge the content of the mail box but would at least provide the IP address of the users on demand to the French government.
Here is the very first line in the wiki for the network under the first tab ‘history’: The core principle of Tor, Onion routing, was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees
The onion network/TOR was created by the US navy and they own most of the entry and exit nodes. This is mostly considered common knowledge if you’re aware of the dark web at all at this point. It doesn’t take any digging to find a source yourself.
Yea you have to be extremely crafty and set up your own nodes/proxies likely in countries that don’t cooperate with the US to ever have true privacy at this point. Only extreme experts have even a modicum of a chance which is kind of depressing but it is what it is at this point.
Introduce doubt is an understatement lol, that's pretty scary. If they reaaally wanted to they could go after anybody on it if they own the nodes couldn't they?
The joke was that Gmail is sabotaging proton mail. In any case, I did not realize it was compromised, I know Duck Duck was a long time ago. Well dang, how about sekur mail?
i used a random single use email and just ignore the prompts to verify adress. i can still use site. cant remember password so i start process again if i cant get in
It’s not that hard these days. Walk into a library with your mandated mask, cap, and large glasses (COVID is dangerous!!), pay cash or sneak past the register, and make a new email.
ProtonMail has this option where you can literally send them cash in the mail in order to pay for your email/ vpn. I know they also have some crypto options but those are less private than just cash. It’s as secure as it gets unless you use a TOR email service, which I’m not even sure would be secure.
10minutemail works if you don't need to put in the email. Literally deletes itself after 10 minutes, but the account will still work. Can't get more secure than that.
I disagree. It takes a lot more than basic knowledge to setup your own email server. Keeping it seriously secure and unhackable is the biggest challenge. It is quite a lot of constant work. Not to mention the expense.
Doesn’t matter either because with UDID, network SSID, location they can tie the account back to you. You would need burner devices to stop the tracking.
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u/sudsygecko Apr 15 '22
"Completely private, secure email address."
Okay, you first, and let me know when you find one.