Tor & Email?

Nicolas Pouillard nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 17:57:54 UTC 2010


On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:42:00 -0500, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The only recommended way to use email with Tor is to use web mail,
> >> e.g. https connections to gmail.
> 
> Keep in mind that google does not allow new accounts to be
> created via Tor. Unless you are willing to give up your phone
> number. Also they expose the GX session key and other cookies during
> the signup to login phase, even if you carefully forced ssl urls, so your
> minty new vanity named account is subject to immediate exit hijacking.
> They also bastardize IMAP and mail purging, store and read your mail
> for life, corroborate with the NSA and generally suck ass otherwise.
> If any of these bother you, and for most purposes, you're better off
> finding another mail provider :)

Why are you using GMail, then?

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard
http://nicolaspouillard.fr
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