The MOST private email service

E-mail remains an essential backbone of internet communication, with over 4 billion users worldwide. But is it private? Actually it's inherently insecure. Furthermore, the vast majority of users rely on free online email services. Did you know that they use AI algorithms to scan your emails in order to learn more about you? Or that emails are stored in the clear, meaning in the event of a hack, all your emails would be leaked? Do you know what Metadata is and how much is collected by your email provider?

In this video, we go over what makes a good private email service and provide you with valuable suggestions for safer alternatives than the big names you are used to.

There is no one-size-fits-all answer for email, as it depends on your own threat model. But moving away from that old gmail or yahoo account is a GREAT place to start.

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Written by Reuben Yap
Edited by Lee Rennie

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Recommended Books:

Beginner's Introduction To Privacy - Naomi Brockwell

Permanent Record - Edward Snowden

What has the government done to our money - Rothbard

Extreme Privacy - Michael Bazzel (The best privacy book I've ever read)

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State - Glenn Greenwald

Some of my favorite products to help protect your privacy!

Faraday bag (signal stopping, to protect your fob, credit card, computer, and phone)

Data Blocker (if you're charging your phone in an unknown port, use this so that no data is transferred)

Camera tape (electrical tape is the best tape for covering phone and computer cameras)

USB-C to ethernet adapter:

Privacy Screens (use your phone and computer in public? Keep your information safe!)

Computer: (Search for the size right for your computer)

Phone: (Search for the size for your phone, decide whether you want glass or plastic!)

[MgtowRubicon]

"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product."
Even paying for the product doesn't protect you from being the product.

[javierortiz]

A cousin of mine bought airplane tickets for me and my family and sent them to my gmail account, Google then figured out we would be on vacation for a time range and started flooding us with ads of hotels and other places in that location, then even started sending me reminders when the time for the trip was close. What they do with your emails is criminal, laws should be promoted to criminalize this behaviour.

[utha]

I was taught from the start treat email like sending a postcard, anyone who comes into contact with it can read it.

[germanjohn]

Absolutely NO privacy on the internet no matter how much they promise you...Never take for granted that nobody can't see or read what you do on your computer or the internet.

[dArtagnan]

Thank you, Naomi! I tried Tutanota, but when sending messages to those, (about 99.9% of my correspondents), with other email servers, they would need a code to navigate encryption and actually read it. To get this code to them, I would have to send it via another, less-secure email provider, thus rendering the whole concept worse than useless.

[MikeANGEL-bm]

I just discovered your channel today and I'm watching your videos like a Netflix Tv-Series, waiting for the next one. Your capacity to explain vast majority of IT subjects as if we were 5 is great. Will be a plus for non-IT visitors looking for information! Thanks Naomi, well educated users are also the key to reduce cyber attacks!!!

[jeanbrown]

Never put anything in an email, that you would not be quite happy for the whole world to read

[code-dredd]

Remember kids, in email, the S stands for security.

[per_sev]

Proton mail keeps your security keys on their servers (it's how they allow you to auto access from multiple devices), which means they could just as easily give your security keys to authorities, or use them themselves, and also means that if someone ever hacks their servers, they can steal account addresses and keys for those accounts, which is pretty bad.

[BGPhilbin]

Not only are your videos brilliantly written and delivered, I absolutely love the stuff in your background. It also doesn't hurt that you're simply adorable. This particular video was just what I was looking for, so thank you for that. I'm likely going to eventually get around to having viewed all of the videos, but I just wanted to give a comment on one to compliment you on your delivery and explanations - they're just excellent!

[ballhawk]

Ever since email started I decided not to email anything unless I'd be good with it being on a billboard on a heavily traveled freeway. It truly amazes me how people email stuff that is very private, or even incriminating.

[privacyvalued]

When we are talking about security of email, we are talking about the SMTP protocol. SMTP messages outbound from a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) is ALWAYS conveyed over port 25. That means: No encryption, plain text transfer. And even if a MTA uses STARTTLS, once the email is outside of the internal network, there is no guarantee that a MTA in the middle won't transmit in plain text (i.e. won't use STARTTLS). If you stay in the same email ecosystem (e.g. GMail to GMail), there are some guarantees of security that at least email can be transmitted via TLS between the two parties and therefore won't be transmitted as plain text over the network. The most private email service is and has always been to host it yourself and not send email outside of your own network.

[nasamaister]

This is far more than brilliant education! . . . "the general population doesn´t know what´s happening - and it doesn´t even know that it doesn´t know." (Noam Chomsky) . . . thanx!

[rogerghai]

Keep the important videos coming the public needs to know.

[michaelcrimmins]

I like that you Believe in Edward Snowden. Thanks

[UQRXD]

The locksmith always has a key to lock he makes.

[martinwalker]

Thank you Naomi. That was a clear, considered and informative lesson. Brilliant.

[NBGTFO]

I realized long ago that the current email system design is absolutely awful. Sadly, the people maintaining the email infrastructure and systems benefit from being able to snoop on your private messages so it's kind of like getting Congress to pass term limits. Why would they change things to something with which they can't make money? If anyone were goingto fix this problem with email, they would have done it by now. In fact, I would bet many have done so, but been bought off by big tech so they can keep reading your emails.

[tmpsmpls]

Outlook has one very important option. You can create an alias that is not possible to login with. That means you can create an accounut in any web service and feel safer cause even if someone knows what email (the alias) in the service you use, they still can't hack your email account.

[Odn]

Last time I used PGP was in 2007. In Thunderbird. Was the only encryption I actively ventured into. None of the folks I met since has asked for this or would actually know how to do it. I work in IT 😂