Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn@jeack.com.au):
What I will do now is start to look around for a durable non-web email address ; that is obviously not tied to a particular ISP ...suggestions welcome!
1. Register your own domain. 2. Do your own DNS. 3. Host your own mail.
Works for Me.™
This *may* be beyond Rohan's current skill level. Setting up a "good enough" mail server is not terribly hard, but if you've never done it before, there are several gotchas, e.g. * what do you mean my ISP blocks outbound 25 unless I upgrade to a "business grade" ADSL subscription? * what do you mean other MTAs auto-block me because my IP address is listed as being in a "dynamically assigned by the ISP range?" * what do you mean I accidentally became an open gateway for a couple of days, and now RBLs are blacklisting me? * what do you mean I forgot to put rate limiting or 2FA on the SASL, and someone is reading all my mail and maybe privesc'd to root and installed an open-access FTP server and/or bitcoin minerd? * what do you mean I actually get spam again, because I didn't know to do all the little things to stop getting spam? (e.g. null MX, tarpit MX, postscreen, maybe even crm114 if your username is something like "sales") * what do you mean I should have a second, offsite, MX? (and, like, ANY backup regimen?) Rohan, if you don't care about the US government reading your mail, the cheapest and easiest answer will be one of the big mail vendors (like gmail). You can acces them via IMAP/SMTP, no browser required. I don't know if they block Tor. You can pay them a little extra and they'll be the backend for a custom domain you own (e.g. if you want to be rohan@example.com, you buy example.com and pay gmail to be the mail server for it). It sounds like you *do* care about that, in which case you should probably stop using email altogether, because enough mail passes through the US that they can work out what's going on anyway. Organize your terror cell using traditional methods, entirely OFFLINE. I think I saw some SOE field manuals about this on gutenberg.net.