Encrypted And Anonymous Email Service Free And CommercialWhy would we want to use an anonymous email service free or commercial, or encrypt the contents of our emails? Well, consider whether you would you put all your business or personal correspondence on a post card, showing your own address as well as the recipients, and knowing everyone who handles it will read it and know who's sent it. For some correspondence, that would be perfectly acceptable... but for sensitive, confidential or intimate messages, the majority of us would ensure the contents are enclosed in a sealed envelope. This is exactly how we should treat our email messages... some are perfectly okay to send by open routes, but other email may need to be sent more securely. Let's now take a look at and discuss the following aspects of anonymous email services free and commercial... 1. Anonymous Email Service Free Or Commercial... Why Secure Our Email?When sending emails, not only can anyone at our Internet Service Provider (ISP) read our messages, but dozens of copies of it are left on servers around the world. It's possible for anyone to track everything we write, and everything we read online. There are very practical and legitimate reasons why we may not want to reveal our identity or contents and so guard privacy when sending e-mail. For instance, an anonymous email service free or otherwise, can be useful when we want to...
In some cases, it may be just the content we won't want read; in others we may not want our identity revealed; in other circumstances it may be both. An anonymous email service free or commercial allows you to choose the level at which you guard privacy for your email correspondence... 2. Anonymous Email Service Free Or Commercial... Ensuring ConfidentialityWhen we dispatch our emails, a message header reveals our IP address -— the service provider's servers through which we connect to the Internet. Using that IP address, any cracker or investigator can obtain our name, address, and phone number. As our emails aren't encrypted, they can be read once they leave our computer. By using an anonymous email service free or commercial, also known as anonymous remailers, we can send email anonymously. Some remailers also encrypt the contents of our email, so if intercepted, they can't be read. 3. Anonymous Email Service Free Or Commercial... How They WorkAnonymous remailers hide our IP address by removing the header information. A remailer server acts as an intermediary, in that we send our message to the remailer, the remailer strips out our header, and then forwards our message to its destination. The receiver sees the remailer's IP address and not our true IP. Don't want your email messages read? The answer is an anonymous email service free or commercial, which encrypts your messages. While anonymous surfing hides our IP address, most anonymous surfing tools do not permit the sending of anonymous email. Even if we use a free Web address, it can be traced back to you via your Internet Services Provider. Let's look at some of the possibilities for sending both encrypted and anonymous email. As you'll see, the amount and type of protection offered by these services vary, so you need to choose the one which suits your needs. 4. Anonymous Email Service Free Or Commercial... The Services AvailableI. Anonymizer Total Net Shield And Secure TunnelI may be making an assumption here, but if you are interested in anonymous email, then you are probably interested in anonymous surfing. My advice is to combine the two. With Anonymizer Total Net Shield or Secure Tunnel, not only do you get a VPN tunnel, encrypting and anonymizing your surfing and email, but the cost is not much more than that of a commercial remailer. There is more information at A Review Of Commercial And Free Encrypted Tunnel Proxy And VPN Programs. Or, you can visit their home pages at Anonymizer Total Net Shield II. TorPrivacy advocates are giving the thumbs up to this anonymous email service free and including web surfing. Tor can protect the anonymity of Web browsing, instant messaging and email. Like Anonymizer Total Net Shield and Secure Tunnel,there is more information at A Review Of Commercial And Free Encrypted Tunnel Proxy And VPN Programs. However, beware... the site admits on its home page that, at this stage of development, anonomity cannot be guaranteed. This is probably one to keep an eye on until the development is more secure. III. MyTrashMailMyTrashMail is an anonymous email service free and including to up to 15 email addresses at a time. You can even add attachments to your messages. The company also offers free 'temporary' email addresses -- you can use these addresses when you need to access a Web site which demands registration. However, be aware that many sites block these kinds of addresses, so it may not work. You will find that your emails will contain ads to fund the free service. Although you may be okay about the ads, what about your recipients? You can upgrade to no ads by making a donation. IV. EncryptEncrypt is a commercial program I use to communicate with my clients. The program encrypts the contents of my emails to them, so they have confidence that their information is kept secure and private. Encrypt is not an anonymous email program, but an easy-to-use program for ensuring no-one but the receiver can read the contents. All I need do is type my e-mail as normal in the Encrypt window, attach any files or folders, enter a one-off password, click "encrypt"... and off it goes! Prior to sending it, I either 'phone, text, fax or e-mail the password to my contact. She/he then opens the encrypted file, enters the password and the email is decrypted for viewing. Try the
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and see how it works for you. V. HushmailHushmail provides free encrypted email but not anonymization. The free version is Web-based and contains ads. For a small premium you can send and receive ad-free email through Outlook, Thunderbird etc, or from your website. There is also a business package for your own domain or your-domain.hush.com. You can sign up for free Hushmail with automatic encryption, virus scanning and spam filtering here. VI. AdviceboxAdvicebox offers a subscription anonymous email service free of encryption, which lets you send as many anonymous messages as you wish. Your messages are sent via Advicebox's Web interface, and there is no way of tracing the message back to you. You need to be aware that although Advicebox will not reveal senders' identities to anyone else, it will cooperate with legal requests. 3. Commercial And Free Proxy Anonymizers... |
