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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"For this reason we have created Onion Mail, your email encrypted with PGP and your data does not reside on a single server but is distributed over the network. You can use Tor for browse the Hidden website and you can encrypt all your emails with your PGP key.'"

If this type of service appeals to you I recommend you check out https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/

[–] naut@infosec.pub 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

proton mail requires another email or telephone number for verification

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://kycnot.me/search?q=sms&type=

For a few pennies you can anonymously pass any sms hurdle.

Not ideal, I realize.

[–] Gush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its a site that lists anonymous services, usually accepting monero as payment.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Usually it costs me on avg $1.50

And some of these sites ask for an OTP over SMS at every login. It gets expensive fast.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

You can use a throwaway for the email, unless they changed that recently

[–] remer@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, and in fact it’s worse than your linked page suggests. I was happy to receive email and not send. So that free trial would have been forever perfect for me. But after a few months my login creds mysteriously quit working. No warning and no msg after the fact to tell me why my #onionmail.org account was deleted.

It’s a dick move because people rely on email for important tasks. It’s fair enough to have limitations, but concealing the limitations is off.

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Freeeeeeeeee … at this point we all should know there is no free anything, like ads, if something needs ads, is because it sucks . the word needs to be understood . Etymology

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My concerns with this site are the domain will get flagged as a spam / illegal content / threat domain. Which will impact anyone trying to use it as real email.

With no identity / payment gateway it's inviting people to abuse it.

Being able to attach files to emails sent anonymously is going to intice bad behavior by bad actors.

I like the idea, free anonymous email, it's my kind of crazy. But when running such a site we need to protect it from abuse or the site will die.

[–] naut@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there is limit on daily messages you can send for free

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Perhaps that was the case a year ago when you posted this, but now the free accounts allow zero outbound msgs.

It’s interesting that their highest tier plan is capped at 150 msg/day. In any case, I think @jet@hackertalks.com has no cause for concern.

My problem is that they delete trial accounts without reason & without warning. So I distributed my email address to people and just a few months later the address is dead. They don’t say the free accounts have a time limit. I thought the only limit was lack of sending feature.

[–] Icalasari@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Is that an onion link I spy on their site?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Is it like the onion?