In this video, I want to cover the last type of email providers.
So as we're going through these videos, the providers will become a little bit harder to use and will
have less features, but they will become more private, more secure, and therefore more anonymous.
So in the previous lecture, we had the look on privacy focused email providers such as Protonmail.
They were great as they don't track you.
They keep no logs, they use encryption and all that good stuff.
The only problem with them is that they operate both on the clear and on the darknet.
They are proper known companies and therefore sometimes they comply with court orders and might be influenced
by agencies and so on.
Now the email providers that I want to show you in this lecture, they come with all of these great
features of the privacy focused mail providers.
So they come with no tracking, no logs, require no personal information and all that, and they operate
fully from the darknet.
So they don't have servers on the clear net.
And even if they have clear net websites, they redirect you to the Darknet website.
They they're less likely to be influenced by agencies and so on because all of their servers are in
the darknet.
So all of them are running as onion services.
Therefore, by default, they benefit from Tor's anonymizing and privacy features.
They all use encryption and therefore they are more secure, more private, and therefore they are more
anonymous.
Now there are a lot of Darknet email providers.
I'll include links to lists in the resources of this lecture.
You can go through them and see which one you like the most.
As usual, do your own research, read the privacy policy and pick the one you like the most.
In this lecture, though, I'm going to show you two examples of these mail providers.
The first one is Elwood.
It's pretty cool.
Like I said, keeps no track, no logging, all that cool stuff.
It also uses end to end encryption and your emails are stored in personally encrypted storage.
So that's really, really nice.
Now before I go and use this, both of these services that I'm going to show you today do not require
JavaScript.
Therefore, we can go ahead and set our security settings to the highest.
We had to keep it at safer when we were using Protonmail because it requires JavaScript.
But for both of the services that we're going to use today, they do not require JavaScript.
Therefore we can set our security to the highest and they should still work and function as expected.
Signing up to this is very simple.
All you have to do is go to sign up.
Now, like I said, I will include a link to this in the resources of the lecture.
So don't worry about that.
It's going to ask you for your name again.
Use your fake identity.
So I'm going to set it to John Wick.
Put a username so I'm going to set it to Jane wk7.
Set a password, solve the CAPTCHA and click on register so it doesn't get any simpler than this.
When you're done, it's telling us we succeeded.
We have the email now and we can just go ahead and log in.
So I'm going to log in with my username, put my password, fill the CAPTCHA.
Now it's going to ask you to verify your email.
You can do this using any of the other services that I covered before, or you can just skip the verification
and go straight to your account.
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
the text only interface.
And perfect.
As you can see, you get a normal inbox that is very easy to use.
So I'm not going to spend too much time on it, but I want to highlight a major feature of this email
provider.
See, when it comes to Darknet email providers, not all of them allow you to send emails to Darknet
and clear net addresses.
So Elude is one of these email providers which allow you to communicate with both clear net and Darknet
addresses.
So as a test, let me first of all send an email to a clear net address to a Gmail address.
So this is my other Gmail account.
Now, you should never do this in real life scenarios.
You should never communicate with your own clear net addresses because this can be used to link you
and to know who you are.
But for now, I'm just trying to show you that this email provider works with both clear net and Darknet
addresses.
So I'm just going to say this is a test to a clear net email address.
You can also send attachments if you want, but we're going to keep this the way it is.
I'm going to send it.
And if I go to my email address that I sent this to.
As you can see, we got the message.
It's telling us that this is a test to a clear net address and I can reply, let's just say it works.
And if we go back here, go to the inbox.
Refresh it.
Perfect.
As you can see, we get the response.
If we click on that.
It's saying it's works.
So everything is working as expected and we can use this account to send emails to both clear net and
Darknet addresses.
Now this is one example of Darknet email providers.
The other example that I want to show you is called Tor Box.
Like I said, I will include links to this in the resources.
And the main difference between Tor Box and Elude is that Tor Box is completely isolated from the clear
net.
This makes it a little bit more private because it literally prevents you from communicating with anyone
on the clear net, therefore increasing your privacy and therefore increasing your anonymity.
Also, like I said, the more examples that I show you, the less features they will have and the more
anonymous they are.
So this email provider has less features and you'll see that.
But like I said, it will be more private and more anonymous.
So let's click on sign up to sign up and you'll see this is again, very, very simple.
We'll set a name.
So again, John Wick.
Pick an email.
So our email is going to be gnwk7 and it will be at this address dot onion and we're going to set a
password and solve the CAPTCHA.
And perfect.
The email is done.
This is it.
You can store it in a text file so you can remember it.
And now we can go ahead, click on Web mail, login to log in.
Put the name and the password.
And perfect.
We're logged in right now.
As you can see, the interface is even simpler in here.
If you wanted to write a message, you can click on Compose.
Let me show you if I send this to my Gmail email address.
And say test and click on Send.
You'll see that this will actually be refused.
So as you can see, it's telling us that this did not get sent because we are trying to communicate
with a clear net email address.
However, if I try to send something here to the elude email so this was jnck7 at elude dot n keep everything
the same.
If I click on send, you'll see I'll get no error messages and if I go to elude and check my inbox,
you can see I have a message coming from my third box address and if we go in, we can see the message
content.
Now.
Elwood and Tarbox are just two examples of Darknet email providers.
Like I said, I just wanted to show you two different examples as like I said, Elude allows you to
communicate with both clear net and Darknet addresses where Tor blocks can only communicate with Darknet
addresses.
So again, do your own research, read about both of them, see which ones do to best and fits your
threat model and fits your needs and use the one that is best for you.
And like I said, I'll include links to all of these and more in the resources of this lecture.