Is Vivaldi Mail NSA-Proof/Private?
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I care a ton about 2 things in a webmail A. Aesthetics, which the new webmail provides very well B. Stored in private email servers, I'm like Hillary!
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" No matter where the servers are located - unless the message was encrypted before being sent - there could be no privacy and/or "NSA-proofness" "
Quite correct.
One must remember that the Path is as important as the server location.From my understanding, Any email passing through a server based in a country (or its protectorates) which is monitoring emails can be scanned (since it is regarded as passing through their property).
The way the internet is constructed, with hubs and nodes all over the world it is highly unlikely that your email will get to/from Iceland without passing through a server (or servers) in one of these countries. Current treaties and agreements also allow sharing of scanned data between some countries or blocks of countries.
Storage is another matter. I am not sure how long email data is stored on these servers (hubs and nodes). Probably not long. Just enough time for some Three Letter Acronym to suck them into their data/server farm.
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Like any email service, use an email client for security and the web portal for convenience.
Use IMAP not POP3, so you can use an encrypted connection.
Get a free email certificate or add a PGP plugin, so you can pre-encrypt messages before they are sent.
https://vivaldi.net/forum/suggestion-box/190-vivaldi-net-email
https://vivaldi.net/userblogs/entry/web-mail -
The NSA hacks undersea cables in various parts of the world. It does not matter what the ISPs do wrt storage rules.
For a bad time , just google NSA undersea cable hack
For where the cables are, google undersea cable map
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:whistle: I live near 1 of the compromised transatlantic sites.
It was a simple matter of putting the right people in the right jobs in the right buildings.
Nothing trick or fancy, and all the time in the world. -