Bitcoin Forum

Hi all, I am about to sign up for a new (hopefully free) email address that I plan to use for local btc/ltc transactions and would like to know if you have any suggestions beyond the standard free gmail, yahoo, outlook, etc, that offers good privacy policies and is not that popular (therefore less of a target for hackers, hopefully).   Something that offers 2FA (2 factor authetication would be great) and strips your own IP (replacing it with their own) from the headers would be ideal, otherwise a provider that does not block your account if you connect via Tor/vpn.   Thanks

mail1click is offshore, why not use open-pgp with a vpn service?

Yes offshore provider that has hopefully more protection from big brother is an idea..PGP is something else I was planning to learn

Remember if its free you are the product.

If you want someone to take you as a valid and important customer that is to be protected you need to pay them.

If you are not willing to pay for these services, how will they make money? Probably by selling your profile like all the other free mail services.


Edit: if you are looking for something good, take a look at https://mykolab.com/ cant beat swiss privacy laws ;)

agreed

http://darkmail.info/ when it is finally open.

I second this.

Gmail with VPN works well

Gmail seems to have some fans but I'm not sure I'm comfortable giving Google my phone # , knowing they scan content, partner with the nsa and build user profiles that they sell.   Still I know many people use it and other Google services

Also, thanks to others for suggestions but what can I do to ensure that I am not clicking on a site that will result in my pc being infected with malware?

#1 use noscript for firefox or aquivalent for your browser. Chrome has some good build in mechanisms that work similar.
#2 dont click random links, if you think that the link refers to this forum copy the part besides the main url and type the url by hand. e.g. instead of clicking on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366340.0, copy "index.php?topic=366340.0" type bitcointalk.org and paste behind it. That way you are allways 100% sure go to the site that you think you do.
If you dont know the site you want to go to put it in your favorite search engine (might want to use ixquick or duckduckgo [both are german, but im sure you can find an englisch google proxy] if you want to keep a low profile on google)
#2.b this means never ever click a shortened link, you have no way of knowing what is behind it unless you click it. If someone gives you shortened link ask nicely for the full link, if you dont get one, well try to find the page with the given context.
#3 keep a good antivirus software up to date or use an OS that is not a common target (basicly linux or openBSD)
#4 keep your OS and software up to date, some updates work automatically, some dont, make it a weekly happid to check for new versions of the software you use, this limits the risk of old and well known vulnerabilities.
#5 you can never be 100% safe, thus make a paper-/ coldwallet and use strong passwords

oh and
#6 use different passwords for every login, yes this gets annoying, but if your super duper safe password gets stolen on badsecpage.com it can not be used on everything else.

gmail is the best one i know of good for api programs to.