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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: OuterLimits on August 04, 2013, 03:36 pm
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Does anyone have an invite code for RiseUp.net email?
Please PM me!
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Don't use riseup, it's a US server that's already been seized a few times and is heavily watched by FBI looking for eco terriblists. It also puts activists at risks when drug dealers are using it. If they find out you're using it for anything that doesn't agree with their politics they will cancel your account too.
Plenty of other options exist, hell even privatdemail.net in Egypt would be better.
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what is RiseUp.net?
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what is RiseUp.net?
Not something you ever want to use
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/fbi-seizes-server/
It's for political dissidents, heavily monitored, probably not securely setup, and subject to metadata that the NSA likes to harvest. It's also policed by Riseup activists who will nuke your account the moment somebody snitches you're using it for the dope game.
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At least the FBI returned it! https://mayfirst.org/fbi-returns-server (hilarious surveillance video included)
The FBI obtained a warrant for that server specifically because a bomb threat email exited through the email mixer on that server. Nothing about that tells me that Riseup was specifically targeted. Hell, Riseup wasn't even running anything on that server themselves, they were just providing a colo. AFAIK, no other Riseup servers have ever been seized.
Riseup does provide tech services for political dissident types, including a donation-based VPN service that provides public IP addresses and doesn't keep connection/traffic logs. Of course, the NSA keeps all traffic logs so every VPN service is a somewhat thin layer of protection from them. I personally trust Riseup far more than the average random VPN service (like the HideMyAss debacle - http://falkvinge.net/2011/09/27/never-trust-a-vpn-provider-that-doesnt-accept-bitcoin/).
As far as email goes, all emails are swept up no matter whether they're sent from your basement server or Riseup. Use strong encryption if you want to keep it private.
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So we can't use tormail, riseup, hushmail, I have been told safemail is owned by the people who own riseup wouldn't that make it no go as well?, countermail. So what else does that leave to try? personal vps paid in bitcoin with a private email?