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Now in the previous lectures, we covered different types of email providers.

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Within each type there are a number of providers, and each one of these providers could have their

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own pros and cons.

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Therefore, at this stage I wouldn't blame you if you feel a little bit confused or find it a little

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bit difficult to pick, which is best for you.

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Now, the reason why I covered so many different types, because I think each one of these types is

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different from the other and one all of these types can be very, very useful because you'll be able

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to pick which is best based on your scenario.

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So as I mentioned at the start of the section, when you want to pick an email service, you want to

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keep two main things in your mind.

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Why do you want to use this service and what's your threat model?

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Who might be trying to anonymize you or discover your location?

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Keeping that in mind and in order to revise and make it easier for you to pick a good email provider

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based on your scenario, I made this simple table that summarizes everything we talked about so far.

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Now, the main thing you keep in mind is as we go down in this table, the provider type will be more

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private, more secure, and therefore more anonymous.

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But it will have less features.

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So like I said, it all comes down to why you want to use it for and what's your threat model.

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So the first type of providers we had look on where the common services such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo

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Mail and all of that.

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These email providers can send emails to the clear net and to the darknet.

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As we saw.

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They all use JavaScript so they are less secure.

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We know that they heavily track you and log everything you do, so they are not private.

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Like I said, if you really want to use this, you want to make sure that you use fake identity and

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never communicate with your own email addresses or any other email addresses that can link to your real

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identity.

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They do not offer a hidden onion service link and they do use HTTPS encryption.

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So these were the base.

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Then the other example we had was the temporary emails, which in my opinion can be very, very useful

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in so many scenarios.

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Like we said, they don't require any personal information to sign up.

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There is no sign up.

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You literally get an inbox straight away and you can use it so you can have unlimited number of emails

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because you're never asked to sign up.

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They are more private and more anonymous than the normal email providers.

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They do use JavaScript, so again, they're not as secure as possible.

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They might be log in you.

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But the cool thing is some of them offer a hidden service.

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So you never need to exit the Tor network when you're using them.

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And they also use HTTPS to add an extra layer of encryption.

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So this is a really, really good option if you know what you're doing, if you just want a temporary

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email to send, to send something quickly, to receive something quickly, and this and this will actually

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be destroyed once you're done with it.

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So it can be anonymous enough.

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It can be great in so many scenarios, again, if you're trying to just bypass a registration form and

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so on.

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The next email providers that we had to look on were the privacy focused or what I called hybrid services

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so they can communicate with clear net and darknet services.

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They they have a lot of nice features.

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What really differentiates them from the common services such as Gmail, Yahoo and all of that is the

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fact that they will not track you.

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They won't be log in your movement.

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They don't require personal information.

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Like I said, these are privacy focused.

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Some of them will even have a darknet address.

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So again, you can access them without exiting the Tor network, which will improve your privacy and

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anonymity.

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Some of them use end to end encryption again.

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In our example, Protonmail uses end to end encryption.

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So like I said, even if they wanted to see what you're doing, they won't be able to see it.

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The only problem with these providers is the fact that they are real, proper companies.

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They have servers on the clear net and they have complied to court orders and disclosed information

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about their users previously.

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Now, like I said, they keep no logs and they require no personal information and they use end to end

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encryption.

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So the amount of information they can share is limited because they don't know a lot.

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But again, the fact that they do comply sometimes puts them in second place in terms of anonymity.

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The other thing that you want to keep in mind is the fact that they require JavaScript.

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So when you use them, you need to have your security settings in the Tor browser to medium, which

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is not very secure.

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But if you're using Protonmail or any other reputable email provider, and if that email provider is

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used in https, then it is secure enough to enable JavaScript and the medium level.

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But again, this is still not as secure and as anonymous as possible.

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This led us to the last email providers which are completely available on the darknet.

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They have no clear net addresses.

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So again, when you use them, you never exit the terror network.

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This increases your privacy and anonymity.

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They also do not require JavaScript, so you can put your security settings to the highest where JavaScript

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and all of the other features of the browser are disabled that can be used to reduce your security or

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anonymize you.

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Some of these providers allow you to communicate with both clear net and Darknet addresses, such as

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Elude.

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And we also had an example of Tor Box, which is a provider that only allows you to communicate with

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Darknet addresses.

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Now this is great because like I said, it keeps you limited and it keeps you as anonymous as possible.

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Now it goes without saying that none of these services track you.

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None of them keep logs because they run as onion services.

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They make full use of the privacy provided by Tor.

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And on top of that, some providers such as ELUDE provides end to end encryption and even personally

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encrypt the storage that stores your emails.

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And again, because these are Darknet services, the location of their servers is unknown and they're

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less likely to comply with court orders or to get influenced by government agencies and so on.

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Now, like I said, the examples that I'm giving you in here, these are just single examples of the

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categories that we see here on the left.

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So do your own research if you want to learn more about each one of these categories and don't just

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take my word for granted.

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Go read the privacy policy, read the history of each of these companies.

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Make sure that this company or this provider is the best for you, for your scenario, and only then

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start using it.