1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000 As mentioned in the previous lecture. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:09,000 In this lecture and in the next lectures, I'm going to show you a number of methods to send and receive 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:09,000 emails. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:17,000 And then you can sit down yourself, compare them, and see which ones you to best based on the reason 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:22,000 why you need an email address and based on your threat model. 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Now, the first thing that I want to cover is temporary email accounts. 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:34,000 As the name suggests, these are email accounts that will work for for a short period of time and then 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,000 they expire, deleting all of your emails and all of the information on them. 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Now, the cool thing about these accounts is, first of all, they're temporary. 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 They require no setup. 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,000 So they won't request any personal information and they won't waste any time. 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,000 As soon as you load the website that offers the service, you will be presented with your inbox, which 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 you can use straight away. 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 So as you can see, this can be very useful in many cases. 15 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,000 If you wanted to communicate with someone for a short period of time, or if you get asked for an email 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:14,000 by a website and the website will send you a confirmation link, so you actually need to have a valid 17 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 email. 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Then you can use this and in many cases you're asked to have a company email. 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,000 And these emails are great because they actually do look like company emails and like other emails that 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,000 you get from Gmail and so on. 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Now the main disadvantage with these email accounts is that they are relatively easy to break into. 22 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,000 So you want to be careful about that. 23 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 But if you're using encryption, which I'm going to show you later on in the course, then even if someone 24 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:50,000 reads your messages, your data should be secure and encrypted as long as your keys are encrypted. 25 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 But that's something to talk about for another lecture. 26 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 For now, let's have a look on how to use these temporary accounts. 27 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,000 An example right here we have e-mail address dot com. 28 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 There is also a mail dot com. 29 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:09,000 And I'm going to include a full list of all of these websites in the resources of this lecture. 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 There are also hidden onion services that offer the same service. 31 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,000 So this website right here, guerrilla gmail.com right here, I'm actually on the clear net website, 32 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 as you can see, but they also offer a hidden service. 33 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:32,000 So right here I have the Dot Onion Hidden Service website, which is called Target Mail and pretty much 34 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 it's the same functionality. 35 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:39,000 It gives you a temporary inbox which you can use for one hour after the hour. 36 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Everything gets deleted. 37 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 So using the inbox is very simple. 38 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:49,000 You can see, first of all, you can actually set the name that you want to use for this email in here. 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:55,000 You can also set the domain so you can pick the domain from any domains that you want in here. 40 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:01,000 And like I said, this can be very useful if the website you're signing up for requires you to have 41 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 a company email. 42 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Once you have these picked up, you can actually copy this email and share it on that website or send 43 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 it to anyone that you want to receive emails from. 44 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:21,000 But using the email like this makes it easier to guess your ID and gain access to this inbox. 45 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 So a better way of sharing it is to use the scrambled link in here. 46 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 So this is basically the same email that you see in here. 47 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:37,000 It's just scrambled so that it's more difficult to know the ID so you can copy this and give it to anyone 48 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 that wants to send you an email. 49 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:45,000 And just as an example, I'm going to go to the clear net version of this website, this one right here, 50 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Guerrilla MLB.com. 51 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 And I'm going to click on Compose. 52 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 I'm going to set the two email to the email that I have here on the Darknet. 53 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 And let's set the subject to test. 54 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 And set the body to. 55 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 This is a test message. 56 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Now, as you can see, you can even add attachments if you want. 57 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,000 But I will talk about file sharing in more details in the future. 58 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 And once you're done, we can just click on Send. 59 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:20,000 And perfect. 60 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 As you can see, it's telling you that the message is dispatched. 61 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:29,000 And let's go to the darknet inbox in here and see if we're going to receive it. 62 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,000 And perfect. 63 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,000 As you can see, we got a new message in here. 64 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 So if we click on this. 65 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:42,000 And we have the content that we expect which says this is a test message. 66 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Now, one thing I should note is, as you can see here, in the clear net version of this website, 67 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 you have the compose button where you can compose and send emails. 68 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,000 But in the dark net version, this functionality is not working as expected. 69 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000 And even if you click on reply, it's not going to work. 70 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Now, hopefully they fix this in the future by the time that you watch this lecture. 71 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,000 But for now, the Darknet version can only be used to receive emails. 72 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:16,000 But that's not a big problem because as you can see through Tor and through Thales, we can actually 73 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,000 still access clear net websites and we can make full use of this functionality. 74 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:28,000 So like I said, this is one option of receiving and sending emails. 75 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 The pros is that it requires no information. 76 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:37,000 No time is wasted on signing up and everything gets deleted within an hour. 77 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Or if you're using other services such as this one, you can pick how long you want to keep the account 78 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 for the cons. 79 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:51,000 This might be easier to break into and it is temporary, so it will eventually expire. 80 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Therefore, it might not be good for all scenarios or for everybody. 81 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,000 And like I said, these are just two examples of websites that offer these services. 82 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Check out the resources of this lecture for a list of more websites that offer the same service with 83 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,000 slightly different features.