[liberationtech] Snakeoil and suspicious encryption services

[Dan Blah]

Maybe useful, a growing list of "next generation secure email or email-like
communication" clients here: https://github.com/OpenTechFund/secure-email



On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai <
lorenzofb8 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hey guys,
>
> After The New York Times video suggesting a few questionable services to
> encrypt email (see here:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/personaltech/100000003002385/easily-encrypt-your-email.html?smid=tw-nytimes
> )
> I was wondering if it's time to make a list of not-so-good snakeoil
> encryption services that have popped up after the Snowden revelations.
>
> As a reporter, I have received pitches for around a dozen different
> products, but wanted to ask you if you've seen any, and why you think
> they might not be good. Here's a short list to get you started (I'm not
> saying all these are terrible, we should look into them and figure out
> why they might or might not be good):
> - -Virtru (https://www.virtru.com/)
> - -Shazzlemail (http://shazzlemail.com/)
> - -Protonmail (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/protonmail)
> - -InfoEncrypt (https://www.infoencrypt.com/)
>
> Feel free to also highlight good sevices,
>
> Cheers,
>
> lfb
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