[liberationtech] mail2tor.com hidden service

[zaki at manian.org]

Plaintext over Tor to email accounts are probably not safe.

We've seen a major round of this where the Feds seize a hosted anonymous
email account and then email plain texts appear in indictments. Perhaps the
most famous is the TorMail & Charlie Shrem case.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/runasandvik/2014/01/31/the-email-service-the-dark-web-is-actually-using/


On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Richard Brooks <rrb at g.clemson.edu> wrote:

> Does anyone have any info about this hidden service?
>
> I've been using it to set up temporary accounts to
> exchange info as a pgp work-around for people having
> trouble working with pgp keys. I assume the content
> can be read by whoever runs the site, but they won't
> know who I am.
>
> If the other side uses the hidden service, too. The mails
> can be read but the service won't know who either side is.
>
> Any faults in this logic?
>
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