I imagine that some already know the service of riseup.net
riseup basically it is a network of services oriented to activism where they ensure the privacy of their users. Originally created for social causes and activists.
Since the fundamental principle of the services provided is the privacy and integrity of the user. It becomes a great tool for those of us who like to be a little more "subtle" on the web.
As well. After sending several requests and explaining why I should have an account there. They responded months later giving me the good news.
Now I am a happy boy. 😀
I'm going to give you a little tour of the services it provides riseup.!
We have a secure email account. Where no one will be reading our emails or supervising what kind of emails we send or receive.
To enter the service you can use Webmail (On the configuration page they recommend not using IE 😀). You can also use clients like Thunderbird , Evolution and the like.
Mail list
Is just like any mail list where maybe you've been Only the content generated in said list is private and secure. To be on this type of list, you do not necessarily have to have a Riseup account. So go in and try some.
VPN
As some will know and know. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is always an excellent security and anonymity tool.
Well, Riseup provides you with a VPN account. And you can always use it.
If we look at my IP
Making a simple WhoIS.
Cat
Just like a Gtalk service. Always with the fact of being private messages.
It can be used in clients like Pidgin or any other.
Even if you want to implement much more security. Configuration with TOR and VPN is allowed to use a server «ztmc4p37hvues222.onionztmc4p37hvues222.onion»
Let us remember that the directions .onion They are only readable when we use TOR to open them.
Remaining something like:
etherpad
Many of us know about this service. It's like a Pastebin but in real time. Where you can see what each person writes.
This with the security and privacy of the case.
To finish
There are two basic ways to get an account at Riseup: With an invitation from a person who has one. Or by sending a request from HERE
I do not invite everyone for the following:
I hope you understand 😀
I did not want to go into detail about how I did each thing. Well, to configure the VPN there is a process, To configure the TOR with PRIVOXY is another process. and then in another moment we will do it with more calm.
This in summary is what I have been able to access with this account. It is known that it is a project in progress and that there is still much to document and many projects to finish.
I hope I have craved them a bit 😛
Regards.!
Don't send it to everyone just to me haha
Great article, I have been waiting for an account for 1 month, to see if I have the same luck as you 🙂
What is not clear to me about the emails ... do they also encrypt them locally on their servers? Or can site administrators have access to it?
Thank you
sml
I wanted to create an account in RiseUp, but when I saw that the servers are in the US (Seattle) well, that's right. I lost my Lavabit account and happened to lose more accounts.
In any case, if you send an email to someone who does not use this service then any government will read it. So unless ALL your contacts use this service you are left the same. And since almost everyone uses GMail, Yahoo! and Hotmail, you are toast.
The best thing is to use a standard service and encrypt everything you send and that's it. And not with a ZIP but with more powerful things and with a good password well screwed to decipher. PGP or the like for example.
Or do what Richard Stallman does: use traditional mail and occasionally email on your own server.
Honestly, I had never seen it that way, and I was already seriously thinking about getting an email account in one of those services, but your comment made me think twice and seeing your perspective I think you are right, having an account there It would be useless if the people you would send an email to use the standard services.
PS: I think I'd better continue using my gmail account hahahaha xD
Cheers(:
From my own experience, two attempts, twice your refusal. I prefer to set up my own server and thus do what I want, as if I want to make a storage system in the cloud. More privacy than your own solution, there is nothing.
Riseup.net is the best and I have been with it for 3 years and I will never regret it, its newsletters are very informative and its services are only motivated by social causes and it is how I should promote the internet around the world. 🙂
Hello, good.
I am becoming interested in security recently. What Giskard has said has seemed interesting to me. If everyone you communicate with uses a standard mail system, as in my case, it will not matter if you have an address in OpenMailBox or Mailoo or RiseUp. I would like to know what other alternatives there are, such as email encryption. I don t know how to do that. Is it from gmail itself, for example, or from Thunderbird?
Thanks in advance, greetings.
You have the enigmail plugin for thunderbird.
Or do you use Icedove >> http://i.imgur.com/FzmeZnW.png
that is if you are on debian or in some distro that packs it.
And why is it safe ??, that it differs from other servers?
but the servers are in the US: yes
That's what he was going to say.
For that reason, I better choose OpenMailBox that has its servers in France
For me it was traumatic to switch from hotmail to gmail ... imagine this.
Hello, could you make a post about the VPN and the configuration with PRIVOXY please
If you want privacy, don't use services whose infrastructure is in NATO countries or their allies.
Hello people,
We must clarify a couple of things, that although they are said in the post, they may not be entirely clear.
The Riseup service is a service only for activists, that means that it is used by people who, for whatever reason, may be persecuted by the governments of their country.
So if you are an activist and only if you are, ask for an account on Riseup.
It is a self-managed service that does not mean free, you have to pay for it. Make some kind of donation if you can afford it. If you can't afford it, of course you can also ask for an account.
The mail is encrypted on the riseup servers, the American government would have to have an order to seize those servers but the information would still be encrypted.
The State has tried several times, but Riseup personified himself in different lawsuits, refusing to give the information of his clients and winning the trial.
There are other self-managed groups of the same type that might interest you:
http://www.autistici.org / Italy
Marsupi.org / Catalonia
node50.org / Spain
PS: In riseup you only have 25 megabytes of station, so you have to use an email manager. And of course, always encrypt your messages with PGP.
Ri
Could someone give me an invitation to Riseup ... the admins take a long time and I need it urgently.
my e-mail is kraieoma@guerrillamailblock.com, give me the password here
So, if I want to make an email for my private use (I'm not an activist), I can't? Greetings and thanks.