WEBVTT 00:01.220 --> 00:03.200 As mentioned in the previous lecture. 00:03.200 --> 00:09.260 In this lecture and in the next lectures, I'm going to show you a number of methods to send and receive 00:09.260 --> 00:09.950 emails. 00:09.950 --> 00:17.390 And then you can sit down yourself, compare them, and see which ones you to best based on the reason 00:17.390 --> 00:22.190 why you need an email address and based on your threat model. 00:23.620 --> 00:27.550 Now, the first thing that I want to cover is temporary email accounts. 00:27.970 --> 00:34.630 As the name suggests, these are email accounts that will work for for a short period of time and then 00:34.630 --> 00:39.490 they expire, deleting all of your emails and all of the information on them. 00:40.150 --> 00:43.510 Now, the cool thing about these accounts is, first of all, they're temporary. 00:43.750 --> 00:45.250 They require no setup. 00:45.250 --> 00:50.110 So they won't request any personal information and they won't waste any time. 00:50.110 --> 00:55.480 As soon as you load the website that offers the service, you will be presented with your inbox, which 00:55.480 --> 00:57.400 you can use straight away. 00:58.090 --> 01:01.450 So as you can see, this can be very useful in many cases. 01:01.450 --> 01:07.810 If you wanted to communicate with someone for a short period of time, or if you get asked for an email 01:07.810 --> 01:14.890 by a website and the website will send you a confirmation link, so you actually need to have a valid 01:14.890 --> 01:15.280 email. 01:15.280 --> 01:21.130 Then you can use this and in many cases you're asked to have a company email. 01:21.130 --> 01:26.980 And these emails are great because they actually do look like company emails and like other emails that 01:26.980 --> 01:29.170 you get from Gmail and so on. 01:29.980 --> 01:36.990 Now the main disadvantage with these email accounts is that they are relatively easy to break into. 01:37.000 --> 01:39.190 So you want to be careful about that. 01:39.190 --> 01:44.230 But if you're using encryption, which I'm going to show you later on in the course, then even if someone 01:44.230 --> 01:50.200 reads your messages, your data should be secure and encrypted as long as your keys are encrypted. 01:50.200 --> 01:53.020 But that's something to talk about for another lecture. 01:53.050 --> 01:57.040 For now, let's have a look on how to use these temporary accounts. 01:57.930 --> 02:01.570 An example right here we have e-mail address dot com. 02:01.590 --> 02:03.900 There is also a mail dot com. 02:03.900 --> 02:09.300 And I'm going to include a full list of all of these websites in the resources of this lecture. 02:10.110 --> 02:14.310 There are also hidden onion services that offer the same service. 02:14.310 --> 02:20.580 So this website right here, guerrilla gmail.com right here, I'm actually on the clear net website, 02:20.580 --> 02:24.630 as you can see, but they also offer a hidden service. 02:24.630 --> 02:32.100 So right here I have the Dot Onion Hidden Service website, which is called Target Mail and pretty much 02:32.100 --> 02:33.720 it's the same functionality. 02:33.750 --> 02:39.510 It gives you a temporary inbox which you can use for one hour after the hour. 02:39.510 --> 02:41.130 Everything gets deleted. 02:41.980 --> 02:43.830 So using the inbox is very simple. 02:43.840 --> 02:49.480 You can see, first of all, you can actually set the name that you want to use for this email in here. 02:49.930 --> 02:55.950 You can also set the domain so you can pick the domain from any domains that you want in here. 02:55.960 --> 03:01.990 And like I said, this can be very useful if the website you're signing up for requires you to have 03:01.990 --> 03:03.250 a company email. 03:04.350 --> 03:10.380 Once you have these picked up, you can actually copy this email and share it on that website or send 03:10.380 --> 03:13.480 it to anyone that you want to receive emails from. 03:13.500 --> 03:21.090 But using the email like this makes it easier to guess your ID and gain access to this inbox. 03:21.090 --> 03:25.700 So a better way of sharing it is to use the scrambled link in here. 03:25.710 --> 03:28.980 So this is basically the same email that you see in here. 03:28.980 --> 03:37.830 It's just scrambled so that it's more difficult to know the ID so you can copy this and give it to anyone 03:37.830 --> 03:39.540 that wants to send you an email. 03:39.540 --> 03:45.480 And just as an example, I'm going to go to the clear net version of this website, this one right here, 03:45.510 --> 03:46.950 Guerrilla MLB.com. 03:47.730 --> 03:49.860 And I'm going to click on Compose. 03:51.360 --> 03:55.620 I'm going to set the two email to the email that I have here on the Darknet. 03:57.820 --> 04:00.100 And let's set the subject to test. 04:02.130 --> 04:04.050 And set the body to. 04:04.260 --> 04:06.660 This is a test message. 04:07.680 --> 04:10.950 Now, as you can see, you can even add attachments if you want. 04:10.950 --> 04:14.900 But I will talk about file sharing in more details in the future. 04:14.910 --> 04:17.910 And once you're done, we can just click on Send. 04:20.250 --> 04:20.940 And perfect. 04:20.940 --> 04:24.110 As you can see, it's telling you that the message is dispatched. 04:24.120 --> 04:29.160 And let's go to the darknet inbox in here and see if we're going to receive it. 04:30.500 --> 04:31.250 And perfect. 04:31.250 --> 04:33.710 As you can see, we got a new message in here. 04:33.740 --> 04:36.080 So if we click on this. 04:37.140 --> 04:42.270 And we have the content that we expect which says this is a test message. 04:43.180 --> 04:48.700 Now, one thing I should note is, as you can see here, in the clear net version of this website, 04:48.700 --> 04:52.560 you have the compose button where you can compose and send emails. 04:52.570 --> 04:57.580 But in the dark net version, this functionality is not working as expected. 04:57.580 --> 05:00.940 And even if you click on reply, it's not going to work. 05:01.360 --> 05:05.770 Now, hopefully they fix this in the future by the time that you watch this lecture. 05:05.770 --> 05:10.960 But for now, the Darknet version can only be used to receive emails. 05:10.960 --> 05:16.450 But that's not a big problem because as you can see through Tor and through Thales, we can actually 05:16.450 --> 05:21.310 still access clear net websites and we can make full use of this functionality. 05:22.710 --> 05:28.050 So like I said, this is one option of receiving and sending emails. 05:28.140 --> 05:31.510 The pros is that it requires no information. 05:31.530 --> 05:37.090 No time is wasted on signing up and everything gets deleted within an hour. 05:37.110 --> 05:43.020 Or if you're using other services such as this one, you can pick how long you want to keep the account 05:43.020 --> 05:45.360 for the cons. 05:45.360 --> 05:51.680 This might be easier to break into and it is temporary, so it will eventually expire. 05:51.690 --> 05:56.700 Therefore, it might not be good for all scenarios or for everybody. 05:57.510 --> 06:02.140 And like I said, these are just two examples of websites that offer these services. 06:02.160 --> 06:08.520 Check out the resources of this lecture for a list of more websites that offer the same service with 06:08.520 --> 06:10.200 slightly different features.