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- So apparently, Edward Snowden uses security-focused email service Lavabit http://boingboing.net/2013/07/12/so-apparently-edward-snowden.html 12 comments technology
- How to choose a secure email service - spoiler: It's not Gmail. https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/secure-email-service 27 comments degoogle
- ‘World’s most secure’ email service is easily hackable https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/worlds-most-secure-email-service-is-easily-hackable 77 comments technology
- ‘World’s Most Secure’ Email Service Is Easily Hackable https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/worlds-most-secure-email-service-is-easily-hackable 3 comments privacy
- Transparency Report for the Secure Email Service Tutanota https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/transparency-report-2016-first-half 3 comments privacy
- 5 of the Best Secure Email Services for Better Privacy https://www.maketecheasier.com/secure-email-services/ 32 comments privacy
- Barracuda Email Security Service Outage https://www.barracuda.com/ 47 comments sysadmin
- Best Secure Email: Top 10 Services for 2019 | Restore Privacy https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-email/ 4 comments degoogle
- Will using a custom domain compromise your security if using a privacy respecting/encrypted email service? https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/6n61rg/will_using_a_custom_domain_compromise_your/ 7 comments privacy
- Silent Circle sees 'writing on the wall' after Lavabit closure, shuts down secure email service http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/8/4604202/phil-zimmerman-silent-circle-shuts-down-secure-email-following-lavabit-snowden 10 comments technology
- ProtonMail secure email service provided user data that led to arrest https://www.slashgear.com/protonmail-secure-email-service-provided-user-data-that-led-to-arrest-05689657/ 76 comments technology
- Looking for a free to use/create Email Certificate service for a Network Security class I'm taking https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/50011.outlook-secure-your-email-by-using-a-free-digital-signature.aspx 12 comments sysadmin
- Tutanota Review, Secure & Encrypted Email Service Made Easy https://anonymster.com/tutanota-review/ 8 comments privacy
- GCHQ Forced Secure Email Service PrivateSky to Shut Down http://www.itsecurityguru.org/node/4780 5 comments worldnews
- The NSA 0wnz popular firewalls and 'secure' email services http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/nsa-0wnz-popular-firewalls 131 comments worldnews
- The NSA 0wnz popular firewalls and 'secure' email services http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/nsa-0wnz-popular-firewalls 13 comments reddit.com
- Brazil plans secure email service to thwart cyber-spies: Brazil has confirmed plans to create a secure email service, following revelations of cyber-surveillance techniques used by the US and UK. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24519969 10 comments technology
- NSA is trying to destroy the probably most secure, private email service (lavabit.com) https://lavabit.com/?repost=true 10 comments technology
- Lavabit's closure marks the death of secure cloud computing in the US Once Edward Snowden's use of the email service was public, it was perhaps a given that Lavabit would be targeted by the US http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/10/lavabit-closure-cloud-computing-edward-snowden 55 comments worldnews
- Lavabit's closure marks the death of secure cloud computing in the US Once Edward Snowden's use of the email service was public, it was perhaps a given that Lavabit would be targeted by the US http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/10/lavabit-closure-cloud-computing-edward-snowden 11 comments politics
- UK Secure Email Provider Shut Down His Service In January To Prevent GCHQ From Obtaining Encryption Keys http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131212/10563525549/uk-secure-email-provider-shut-down-his-service-january-to-prevent-gchq-obtaining-encryption-keys.shtml 6 comments crypto
- UK Secure Email Provider Shut Down His Service In January To Prevent GCHQ From Obtaining Encryption Keys http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131212/10563525549/uk-secure-email-provider-shut-down-his-service-january-to-prevent-gchq-obtaining-encryption-keys.shtml 5 comments technology
- Mailpile: private, secure, open source, locally-run email service http://www.ghacks.net/2013/08/03/mailpile-private-secure-open-source-email-service/ 27 comments linux
- Emails Show Trump Official Targeted Maine Social Security Services as Political Revenge: "Trump is clearly comfortable weaponizing Social Security for political purposes, and we fear that this is only the beginning," said one critic. https://www.commondreams.org/news/leland-dudek-resign 3 comments politics
- A Viral Email About Coronavirus Had People Smashing Buses And Blocking Hospitals. Ukraine’s security service said the fake email that was supposedly from the Ministry of Health had actually been sent from outside the country. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/coronavirus-ukraine-china 5 comments worldnews
- Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million US in damages and provide two years of free credit-monitoring services to 200 million people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen as part of the biggest security breach in history. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/yahoo-hack-settlement-1.4875164 6 comments worldnews
- Lavabit relaunches secure email service, encrypted mail goes open-source http://www.zdnet.com/article/lavabit-relaunches-secure-email-service/ 59 comments privacy
- The Kremlin is considering whether or not to release some 20,000 hacked Clinton emails reportedly in its possession; Russian security services apparently obtained the emails as part of their investigation into the Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/kremlin-has-hillary-emails/ 1225 comments worldnews
- N1 is a very nice open source client with modern workflow but it requires that all emails are synced on the Nylas servers or run/maintain a sync engine yourself locally. Would you trust a 3rd party service provider with your emails however secure they claim to be? https://nylas.com/n1/faq 19 comments linux
- Amazon introduces WorkMail; the email service focuses on replacing the back-end technology while keeping the same front-end experience that people are familiar with. Amazon also says WorkMail is more secure; companies can encrypt their own stuff, and the data can be stored anywhere a company wants http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/01/28/amazon-changes-the-game-again-aws-introduces-workmail/ 9 comments business
- Russian law gives Russia’s security service, the FSB, the authority to use SORM (“System for Operative Investigative Activities”) to collect, analyze and store all data that transmitted or received on Russian networks, including calls, email, website visits and credit card transactions http://csis.org/publication/reference-note-russian-communications-surveillance 497 comments technology
- Russian law gives Russia’s security service, the FSB, the authority to use SORM (“System for Operative Investigative Activities”) to collect, analyze and store all data that transmitted or received on Russian networks, including calls, email, website visits and credit card transactions http://csis.org/publication/reference-note-russian-communications-surveillance 3 comments privacy
- Russian law gives Russia’s security service, the FSB, the authority to use SORM (“System for Operative Investigative Activities”) to collect, analyze and store all data that transmitted or received on Russian networks, including calls, email, website visits and credit card transactions http://csis.org/publication/reference-note-russian-communications-surveillance 57 comments worldnews
- Google has announced that it has enhanced encryption for its Gmail email service, bolstering security to protect customers from prying eyes, especially those of governments | As of today, Gmail will “always use an encrypted HTTPS connection” whenever a user checks their mail, or sends a new missive. http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/gmail-traffic-between-google-servers-now-encrypted-to-thwart-nsa-snooping/?ncid=rss 30 comments technology
- Google has announced that it has enhanced encryption for its Gmail email service, bolstering security to protect customers from prying eyes, especially those of governments | As of today, Gmail will “always use an encrypted HTTPS connection” whenever a user checks their mail, or sends a new missive. http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/gmail-traffic-between-google-servers-now-encrypted-to-thwart-nsa-snooping/?ncid=rss 15 comments worldnews
- Secure Email Is Dead: "'This idea that you can put your servers or service on some remote island with a volcano, and you will be 'out of reach' of the world's governments -is ridiculous,' said [Mike] Janke of SilentCircle. 'It has never worked. . . . If you hold the data, they can get it.'" http://www.itworld.com/security/370743/secure-email-dead/ 18 comments technology
- Silent Circle follows Lavabit in closing its encrypted email service because it ‘cannot be secure’: "We see the writing the wall... We have not received subpoenas, warrants, security letters, or anything else by any government, and this is why we are acting now." https://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/to-our-customers?cmpid=twitter 13 comments politics
- Kim Dotcom's Mega to expand into encrypted email "we're going to extend this to secure email which is fully encrypted so that you won't have to worry that a government or internet service provider will be looking at your email." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/26/kim-dotcom-mega-encrypted-email 616 comments technology
- Docs from a hacked email account reportedly belonging to Vladislav Surkov, an aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin, are similar to instructions seized by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) agents from organizers of a separatist movement in Zakarpattya, head of the SBU’s personnel department https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/sbu-verifies-authenticity-leaked-documents.html 118 comments worldnews