husmail vs. safe-mail vs. cyber-rights vs. ?

Hushmail cooperated with LE.

Safe-Mail is based in Israel. I found this just now: http://forums.steroid.com/archive/index.php/t-216191.html

And Cyber-Rights is based in U.K.

So none of the most popular 'secure' e-mail services really protect us that much. Anyone know any other free e-mail services that are based in more neutral companies?

Note: I do understand that I can go an encrypt it myself and set up my own e-mail server and what not. That is not what I'm looking for.

 

Pretty much any email company in the world is going to cooperate with USA, and no server side E-mail is secure.

Also cyber-rights is just a UK based reseller for Hushmail. The actual servers are the same ones in Canada.

 

Your best bet is to find one that is hosted somewhere that isn't part of Interpol. 187 different countries share intelligence via interpol. Interpol is also the primary LE organization that is tasked with gathering intelligence regarding internet drug activity via their drugs@net intelligence gathering program.

I wont go into it as you strongly hinted you are not interested, but it is worth noting that no one on this planet can reliably crack self encrypted GPG messages ;-).

 

Don't I need to tell the other party some kind of key as well? I mean that can be intercepted as well.

Now, all of this is kind of pointless because most of the vendors that aren't of the highest tier will use one of those 3 e-mail services and won't require encryption either.

I'm gonna guess that there is no free e-mail service with encryption that is based in a non-interpol country.

However, there are some e-mail services, based in interpol countries, that claim to not cooperate with LE as much. I just googled my way onto this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEnhRTCGs6g

This service isn't free, however.

 

That's the beauty of shared-key encryption. You create two keys, a public one and a private one. The public one can be used to encrypt messages which only the private key can unlock. As long as you keep the private key someplace safe it's very secure.

Wiki has a good article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

 

Exactly.
Forget about online webmail encryption. All are not secure because your private key is not so private (because hosted on their server)

local GPG/PGP on your computer is the tool...