On Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:14:13 +0000, Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users stated: >A. Yes, you can still anonymously register for almost anything. It's >not straightforward and requires a bit of forethought and jumping >through hoops. No, it probably won't defeat the NSA, but if they're >your adversary what in blue blazes are you doing using any kind of >electronic device let alone posting here. > >B. The Shadowgate documentary isn’t. This is Coo-Coo for CocoaPuffs >territory. If you want to believe that stuff that's cool, just >thought I'd make sure to stick the tinfoil tag on this one since you >speak of it like it's a legit thing. >https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/18/fact-check-shadowgate-spreads-misinformation-major-events/5601742002/ > >C. Replying to person you were replying to -- how pants on head >stupid does one have to be to use Tor browser (or any type of security >critical software) on XP? If you think that's a good idea then you >shouldn't be using Tor. Either you don't need Tor and using Tor is >silly for you, or you do need Tor and you're going to hurt yourself >bad by having not the slightest clue how to use Tor safely. > >D: If you really need secure anonymous email, fire up TAILS on a >bootable DVD, sign up for a free Protonmail account over Tor, use a >burner prepaid phone number to authenticate to Protonmail (Protonmail >correctly gets worried about Tor signups), access Protonmail only over >Tor (they have a hidden service). If that's not good enough to >circumvent your adversaries, again, you should probably just move up >into the remote Alaskan wilderness and live off wild animals and >shrubbery for the rest of your life and hope the bad men never find >you. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Gnupg-users <gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org> On Behalf Of Dieter >Frye Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 6:58 AM >To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >Subject: On Becky! Internet Mail's GnuPG Plugin > > >> Hi, > >> curious as I am, If I understand it right, you use Windows XP with >> Becky as MUA for GnuPG or would like to use it with the lastest >> version of GnuPG? > >Howdy. > >So yes, I'm using Becky! as a MUA + an outdated GnuPG plugin on >Windows XP, but functionality is somewhat crippled for anything other >than GnuPG v1.4. > >> Your posting is done via secmail.pro, a Tor email provider, which >> requires AFAIK Tor Browser Bundle to access the service. > >> My question, if you don't mind, does the lastest Tor Browser Bundle >> still supports Windows XP and how do you use Becky with secmail.pro? >> > >Nope, they dropped support for XP (specifically the browser part) a >while ago, which thing never really affected me since I use a third >party browser which I interface with the "expert bundle" exe that they >continue to distribute. Of course, that's an gross oversimplification >of what's actually going on this computer, but you catch my drift. > >As far as secmail.pro is concerned, it's not possible to use it with >Becky! because there's no server-side support for SMTP, POP3 or IMAP, >so I'm writing directly from semail's web interface. > >Unfortunately since practically every single internet service in >existence (be it mail, fora or otherwise) has been in bed with the >worldwide private data collection operation going on right now (lookup >PRISM and the ShadowGate documentary) it's no longer possible (and so >it's been for nearly a decade now) to anonymously register any type of >account anywhere, meaning I'm technically shunned from the Internet >and it's nothing short of a miracle that I'm able to post here at all. >I'm actually shocked this place hasn't been hijacked by vpn-hating >cloudflare and the google captcha nazis because that's true everywhere >else. > >Currently I use another free, anonymous e-mail service called TorBox >which does have SMTP/POP3 support for everyday communications, though >that's only viable for people operating within the TOR network as it's >got no clearweb support unlike secmail itself, which at the end of the >day is kind of a useless thing anyways given it's blacklisted status >(and that completely without justification) among most every big and >small e-mail provider out there.
Worst case of paranoia I have witnessed in quite awhile. -- Jerry
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