Dark Mail - The New Age of Email Privacy?

[Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas]

Official site:  http://darkmail.info/

It might come in 2014, but for now, you can get your email on their mailing list.  If I read right, I think this is peer-to-peer email transfering... Without storing it on a centralized server. Even to the point where the company doesn't have any decryption keys to give to the Gov't. because each email is encrypted with a random encryption key. Or something like that.... I'm not fully sure how it all works, though.

The goal is to avoid snooping from hackers, government agencies, data mining companies, etc.

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[Wolf]

If you ever have a message that requires this much privacy you're better off hand delivering it in an envelope.

[Misery]

I don't think I'll be using this, as I avoid giving out important private information via mail anyway. But I hope this form of mailing will become popular. Won't it require both the sender and the receiver are online at the same time, though?

[Daddy Poi's Oily Gorillas]

In my opinion, I suppose it could be used as a "just-in-case" scenario. Even for plain general messages. Or something like that. (Ex: Things that could be misleading...)  There's a lot you can learn about people just by reading their general messages.  Things like personality traits, insanity, etc. How close you might be to someone, and so on.   And writing styles can help determine where someone might have came from.   Even in such situations, you could indirectly reveal too much information without even knowing it.  (That's why you should also be careful what you publicly 'like' and who you publicly 'friend'... when it comes to permanent identities.. things like that can get rather crippling.)

Ofcourse, I will probably continue to use yahoo for the majority of my mail. (Which is usually junk mail from registering accounts, and perhaps other similar stuff.)


Also, I am not sure about your question, but maybe each email account gets their own secured server..? (Rather than having them all on the same server.) (I will probably have to reread this stuff to make sure, though.)