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I've overhauled and updated my "Privacy First Steps" guide, including adding a section on email aliasing services ✍️

https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/privacy-first-steps/

If you haven't read through it before, this post is how I would approach the journey towards personal privacy (even down to the order!) if I could do it all over again. I think this is one of my most actionable and helpful pieces of content, so I'm glad to be able to share it with Nostr for the first time!

Would love to hear any feedback you all have, or if you'd do things differently!

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finch ☦️ 2y ago

With an email aliasing service, don't you expose your emails through the aliasing provider?

Let's say I use protonmail without an aliasing service. In theory the only party that is able to read my emails is me and the person I'm sending emails to (as well as their email provider assuming they don't use encryption).

Is there a way to mask or encrypt the emails being routed through the alias provider?

existing 2y ago

As far as I know, some aliasing providers support PGP encryption, like SimpleLogin. Now that Proton owns SimpleLogin, it's a bit of a useful negotiation, as we can continue only trusting one party, if you're already using Proton Mail. Of course, it's useful, only as long as your threat model allows you to trust that party in the first place.

bitcoinaz 2y ago

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Tyler Burns 2y ago

Great list of suggestions. One thing I would add to your list that is super easy to start doing right away is to switch your email message viewing to text-only instead of HTML by default with your email client. This will prevent tracking when viewing emails and also make phishing links easier to spot. Most of the time you can get what you need from an email with text-only viewing.

Sometimes you might have to view an email as HTML to be readable, but usually there should be an option to not load remote content when doing so in your email client.

Text-only email by default is a great privacy preserving step that is also easy to do.

Hendrix 2y ago

The fun starts with SimpleLogin when you name your email Companyx@ Simple Login and Company X are also using Simple Login so their address is also Companyx @ Simple Login. Then you both get confused about who is emailing who and who said what :D

Seth For Privacy 2y ago

Host is having issues, sadly, working on getting the site back up ASAP...

Seth For Privacy 2y ago

Back up!