I just learned of this one:
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/desktop-clients/
Secure desktop clients for Linux, Windows and Mac OS (Beta).
Tutanota is an encrypted email service, available as web client
with open source apps for Android and iOS. We invite you all to
test our brand-new open source desktop clients with built-in
encryption.
2018-12-21
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The article is a bit dated, but has anyone here tried tutanota?
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/desktop-clients/
I have a Tutanota account, which I created back in the day
when they allowed it to be created anonymously over Tor. It
is getting increasingly hard to createanonymous accounts in
communication services.
Basically you can encrypt any message to anybody using a
password or a security question, then send it. When the
recipient opens it, they get redirected to Startmail's
website where they can read the message using the password
or security answer.
What this means is that you can send somehow-secure messages
to computer illiterate people as long as you care to give
them the password offband. They can also use the service to
send you encrypted responses without the need to install a
thing.
I can send you a testing email for you to try it if you want.
What this means is that you can send somehow-secure messages
to computer illiterate people as long as you care to give
them the password offband. They can also use the service to
send you encrypted responses without the need to install a
thing.
But it is still a bit too easy for the computer illiterate
people to accidentally disclose content.
I have a Tutanota account, which I created back in the day
when they allowed it to be created anonymously over Tor. It
is getting increasingly hard to create anonymous accounts in
communication services.
They work ok. I think their non-web clients don't support
Tor, which is a big drawback.
Currently I am using Startmail as my main provider. THey
support OpenPGP encryption server side, so you have to trust
their service if you want to use it (or run your own OpenPGP
client side).
The cool features they provide, however, is that they allow
the creation of unlimited disposable addresses - which you
can create for registering to disreputable websites) and
simple message encryption for mere mortals. I like this one.
Basically you can encrypt any message to anybody using a
password or a security question, then send it. ..
..They can also use the service to send you encrypted
responses without the need to install a thing.
I can send you a testing email for you to try it if you want.
I use OpenPGP directly when possible, but sometimes you want
to deliver somethng over a channel that is safer than
ordinary. It is nice to have the option of delivering
encrypted content without having to explain to the recipient
how to run OpenPGP, specially because they will tell you to
get lost if you try, but won't if you tell them to decode
the message using a password.
I have a Tutanota account, which I created back in the day
when they allowed it to be created anonymously over Tor. It
is getting increasingly hard to create anonymous accounts in communication services.
I was reading up a bit more on their system, and they claim to
strip the IP address from the emails. So, even if you couldn't
use Tor, you could still trust Tutanota wrt the IP stripping?
Hello Arelor!
I use OpenPGP directly when possible, but sometimes you want
to deliver somethng over a channel that is safer than
ordinary. It is nice to have the option of delivering
encrypted content without having to explain to the recipient
how to run OpenPGP, specially because they will tell you to
get lost if you try, but won't if you tell them to decode
the message using a password.
The only problem with the password method is communicating that
password in a reasonably secure way.
A live phone call (no recorded messages) is one way, but time
zones could be an impediment.
One cool way would be to reference a page number of a book in
common and then use something like "the first 3 words of
paragraph 2 on page 123."
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..The Internet connection offered by inter-city Spanish
buses, for example, blocks a lot of websites and services,
so in order to access them you have to bypass their firewall
using Tor or an VPN.
You are welcome to send me a shared secret (aka stupid
password) over email/openpgp, so we can start exchanging protonmail/secured, lockbin/secured and startmail/secured
messages for testing.
One cool way would be to reference a page number of a book
in common and then use something like "the first 3 words of
paragraph 2 on page 123."
I usually just give them a business card with a password
writen in the back of it. People gets that idea very easily.
Specially if they are dealing with stuff they care about. A
lot of people won't go to the trouble of setting PGP for
receiving reports or whatever, but will like the idea of
having them delivered over a secure channel.
One thing I hate doing is calling people when their special
order's are in. I'd rather have a BBS that they can log into
and check status. <g>
When I call, most of the time the "local" calls are long-
distance due to people using cell-phones as their primary
phones. Some people have v-mail some do not. Some with v-mail
claim that they never received the messages. Most seem to have
lousy reception and delay. Some numbers that people give me are
wrong.
..I usually don't have that problem. But then I usually bill
special orders in advance, so it is in their best interest
to pay attention.
In the end of the day, I try to phone once in the morning,
once in the afternoon, and if that does not work I send an
email. If after all that trouble they can't bother to
contact me I write that off as their problem.
In the end of the day, I try to phone once in the morning,
once in the afternoon, and if that does not work I send an
email. If after all that trouble they can't bother to
contact me I write that off as their problem.
I just hate using the phone - period.
I'm also not happy with the model that I have.
I just hate using the phone - period.
I'm also not happy with the model that I have.
I hate phoning people because I hate most people. Customers
get a pass because I am getting their money :-)
I don't have much trouble with dishonorable customers, but
sometimes the customer makes the order and then gets run
over by a car... that means they don't pick the order until
they leave the hospital (for example).
With the COVID thing going on, I have had a bunch of
customers place an order and then being thrown into lockdown
because they got the virus. I can't really afford to have
unpaid wares gathering dust in the delivery cabinet for a
month :-)
With the COVID thing going on, I have had a bunch of
customers place an order and then being thrown into lockdown
because they got the virus. I can't really afford to have
unpaid wares gathering dust in the delivery cabinet for a
month :-)
Can you make the deliveries yourself?
Apparently, a lot of businesses here claim that's what is
sustaining them - it keeps the customer happy and prepared to
order again.
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