WEBVTT 00:01.300 --> 00:06.400 In this video, I want to cover the last type of email providers. 00:07.060 --> 00:13.180 So as we're going through these videos, the providers will become a little bit harder to use and will 00:13.180 --> 00:20.440 have less features, but they will become more private, more secure, and therefore more anonymous. 00:21.220 --> 00:29.380 So in the previous lecture, we had the look on privacy focused email providers such as Protonmail. 00:29.410 --> 00:32.020 They were great as they don't track you. 00:32.020 --> 00:35.590 They keep no logs, they use encryption and all that good stuff. 00:35.620 --> 00:41.590 The only problem with them is that they operate both on the clear and on the darknet. 00:41.860 --> 00:49.510 They are proper known companies and therefore sometimes they comply with court orders and might be influenced 00:49.510 --> 00:51.730 by agencies and so on. 00:52.930 --> 00:58.330 Now the email providers that I want to show you in this lecture, they come with all of these great 00:58.330 --> 01:01.090 features of the privacy focused mail providers. 01:01.090 --> 01:08.320 So they come with no tracking, no logs, require no personal information and all that, and they operate 01:08.320 --> 01:09.790 fully from the darknet. 01:09.790 --> 01:13.030 So they don't have servers on the clear net. 01:13.030 --> 01:18.220 And even if they have clear net websites, they redirect you to the Darknet website. 01:18.250 --> 01:24.670 They they're less likely to be influenced by agencies and so on because all of their servers are in 01:24.670 --> 01:25.330 the darknet. 01:25.330 --> 01:28.480 So all of them are running as onion services. 01:28.480 --> 01:35.050 Therefore, by default, they benefit from Tor's anonymizing and privacy features. 01:35.170 --> 01:42.250 They all use encryption and therefore they are more secure, more private, and therefore they are more 01:42.250 --> 01:43.120 anonymous. 01:44.240 --> 01:47.460 Now there are a lot of Darknet email providers. 01:47.480 --> 01:50.890 I'll include links to lists in the resources of this lecture. 01:50.900 --> 01:53.750 You can go through them and see which one you like the most. 01:53.780 --> 01:59.750 As usual, do your own research, read the privacy policy and pick the one you like the most. 02:00.020 --> 02:05.060 In this lecture, though, I'm going to show you two examples of these mail providers. 02:05.090 --> 02:07.400 The first one is Elwood. 02:07.430 --> 02:08.660 It's pretty cool. 02:08.690 --> 02:12.560 Like I said, keeps no track, no logging, all that cool stuff. 02:12.590 --> 02:19.640 It also uses end to end encryption and your emails are stored in personally encrypted storage. 02:19.640 --> 02:21.500 So that's really, really nice. 02:21.800 --> 02:27.950 Now before I go and use this, both of these services that I'm going to show you today do not require 02:27.950 --> 02:28.970 JavaScript. 02:29.420 --> 02:35.060 Therefore, we can go ahead and set our security settings to the highest. 02:36.850 --> 02:42.970 We had to keep it at safer when we were using Protonmail because it requires JavaScript. 02:42.970 --> 02:48.060 But for both of the services that we're going to use today, they do not require JavaScript. 02:48.070 --> 02:54.790 Therefore we can set our security to the highest and they should still work and function as expected. 02:55.620 --> 02:57.840 Signing up to this is very simple. 02:57.870 --> 02:59.700 All you have to do is go to sign up. 02:59.700 --> 03:03.330 Now, like I said, I will include a link to this in the resources of the lecture. 03:03.330 --> 03:04.680 So don't worry about that. 03:05.160 --> 03:07.290 It's going to ask you for your name again. 03:07.290 --> 03:09.000 Use your fake identity. 03:09.180 --> 03:11.070 So I'm going to set it to John Wick. 03:12.330 --> 03:18.060 Put a username so I'm going to set it to Jane wk7. 03:18.970 --> 03:26.920 Set a password, solve the CAPTCHA and click on register so it doesn't get any simpler than this. 03:27.610 --> 03:30.040 When you're done, it's telling us we succeeded. 03:30.040 --> 03:33.610 We have the email now and we can just go ahead and log in. 03:33.820 --> 03:39.760 So I'm going to log in with my username, put my password, fill the CAPTCHA. 03:41.370 --> 03:43.800 Now it's going to ask you to verify your email. 03:43.830 --> 03:50.370 You can do this using any of the other services that I covered before, or you can just skip the verification 03:50.370 --> 03:52.380 and go straight to your account. 03:52.650 --> 03:59.160 Now that I'm in my account, I'm going to go to the email login to go to my inbox and I'm going to use 03:59.160 --> 04:01.230 the text only interface. 04:03.850 --> 04:04.540 And perfect. 04:04.540 --> 04:08.470 As you can see, you get a normal inbox that is very easy to use. 04:08.470 --> 04:14.380 So I'm not going to spend too much time on it, but I want to highlight a major feature of this email 04:14.380 --> 04:15.190 provider. 04:15.520 --> 04:22.270 See, when it comes to Darknet email providers, not all of them allow you to send emails to Darknet 04:22.270 --> 04:24.070 and clear net addresses. 04:24.220 --> 04:31.780 So Elude is one of these email providers which allow you to communicate with both clear net and Darknet 04:31.780 --> 04:32.620 addresses. 04:32.830 --> 04:39.340 So as a test, let me first of all send an email to a clear net address to a Gmail address. 04:39.340 --> 04:41.710 So this is my other Gmail account. 04:42.340 --> 04:44.950 Now, you should never do this in real life scenarios. 04:44.950 --> 04:50.950 You should never communicate with your own clear net addresses because this can be used to link you 04:50.950 --> 04:52.510 and to know who you are. 04:52.510 --> 04:59.470 But for now, I'm just trying to show you that this email provider works with both clear net and Darknet 04:59.470 --> 05:00.250 addresses. 05:00.250 --> 05:08.080 So I'm just going to say this is a test to a clear net email address. 05:09.310 --> 05:14.340 You can also send attachments if you want, but we're going to keep this the way it is. 05:14.350 --> 05:15.730 I'm going to send it. 05:16.150 --> 05:19.630 And if I go to my email address that I sent this to. 05:19.660 --> 05:22.000 As you can see, we got the message. 05:22.000 --> 05:28.000 It's telling us that this is a test to a clear net address and I can reply, let's just say it works. 05:29.140 --> 05:32.860 And if we go back here, go to the inbox. 05:34.190 --> 05:35.180 Refresh it. 05:35.270 --> 05:35.900 Perfect. 05:35.900 --> 05:38.390 As you can see, we get the response. 05:38.510 --> 05:39.920 If we click on that. 05:40.990 --> 05:42.340 It's saying it's works. 05:42.340 --> 05:48.970 So everything is working as expected and we can use this account to send emails to both clear net and 05:48.970 --> 05:50.260 Darknet addresses. 05:51.120 --> 05:55.020 Now this is one example of Darknet email providers. 05:55.050 --> 05:58.980 The other example that I want to show you is called Tor Box. 05:59.010 --> 06:02.500 Like I said, I will include links to this in the resources. 06:02.520 --> 06:10.200 And the main difference between Tor Box and Elude is that Tor Box is completely isolated from the clear 06:10.200 --> 06:10.830 net. 06:11.100 --> 06:17.400 This makes it a little bit more private because it literally prevents you from communicating with anyone 06:17.400 --> 06:23.160 on the clear net, therefore increasing your privacy and therefore increasing your anonymity. 06:23.700 --> 06:28.860 Also, like I said, the more examples that I show you, the less features they will have and the more 06:28.860 --> 06:29.880 anonymous they are. 06:29.910 --> 06:34.050 So this email provider has less features and you'll see that. 06:34.050 --> 06:37.650 But like I said, it will be more private and more anonymous. 06:38.220 --> 06:42.810 So let's click on sign up to sign up and you'll see this is again, very, very simple. 06:43.740 --> 06:44.700 We'll set a name. 06:44.700 --> 06:46.080 So again, John Wick. 06:47.140 --> 06:48.010 Pick an email. 06:48.010 --> 06:58.030 So our email is going to be gnwk7 and it will be at this address dot onion and we're going to set a 06:58.030 --> 07:00.550 password and solve the CAPTCHA. 07:02.740 --> 07:03.370 And perfect. 07:03.370 --> 07:04.390 The email is done. 07:04.390 --> 07:05.110 This is it. 07:05.110 --> 07:07.930 You can store it in a text file so you can remember it. 07:07.930 --> 07:11.800 And now we can go ahead, click on Web mail, login to log in. 07:13.320 --> 07:15.750 Put the name and the password. 07:17.410 --> 07:18.100 And perfect. 07:18.100 --> 07:19.420 We're logged in right now. 07:19.720 --> 07:22.810 As you can see, the interface is even simpler in here. 07:22.960 --> 07:27.040 If you wanted to write a message, you can click on Compose. 07:27.100 --> 07:31.210 Let me show you if I send this to my Gmail email address. 07:33.730 --> 07:37.420 And say test and click on Send. 07:37.630 --> 07:40.470 You'll see that this will actually be refused. 07:40.480 --> 07:46.330 So as you can see, it's telling us that this did not get sent because we are trying to communicate 07:46.330 --> 07:48.550 with a clear net email address. 07:48.940 --> 08:01.330 However, if I try to send something here to the elude email so this was jnck7 at elude dot n keep everything 08:01.330 --> 08:02.160 the same. 08:02.170 --> 08:11.560 If I click on send, you'll see I'll get no error messages and if I go to elude and check my inbox, 08:12.280 --> 08:19.510 you can see I have a message coming from my third box address and if we go in, we can see the message 08:19.510 --> 08:20.230 content. 08:21.360 --> 08:21.990 Now. 08:21.990 --> 08:26.750 Elwood and Tarbox are just two examples of Darknet email providers. 08:26.760 --> 08:32.940 Like I said, I just wanted to show you two different examples as like I said, Elude allows you to 08:32.940 --> 08:40.500 communicate with both clear net and Darknet addresses where Tor blocks can only communicate with Darknet 08:40.500 --> 08:41.350 addresses. 08:41.370 --> 08:48.060 So again, do your own research, read about both of them, see which ones do to best and fits your 08:48.060 --> 08:52.220 threat model and fits your needs and use the one that is best for you. 08:52.230 --> 08:57.780 And like I said, I'll include links to all of these and more in the resources of this lecture.