E-mail Security and Anonymity Practices
As noted in Chapter 1, David Petraeus was unable to secure his own secret e-mail communication. If the former director of the CIA has trouble figuring out how to keep himself anonymous, you can imagine that securing your e-mail might be more difficult than it at first seems.
Safe and anonymous e-mail is complicated by several factors:
• E-mail providers, whether they are your ISP or a webmail service like Google Mail or Yahoo! Mail, either already know who you are and where to find you (your ISP, for example), or else they want to know who you are and how to reach you. Webmail providers often require a backup e-mail address and/or a telephone number.
• E-mail providers can (and do) log the ...
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