[Vision2020] Startpage: The World's Most Private Search Engine, Offers Startmail Mid 2013

[Joe Campbell]

There were some interesting commentaries on KRFP's Morning Mix this morning
(I do the Wednesday morning show), which made related points. The gist of
those commentaries -- by different commentators -- was that the practice
has been going on for awhile now, as part of the hit that civil liberties
took from the Patriot Act (as Saundra notes) and no one said anything about
it then. Plus, as Saundra also notes, there are other aspects of the PA
that are more disturbing. Lastly, Obama was pretty clear during the
election that he had no plans to end the NSA practice, only that he was
going to make it legal and regulated, with judges overseeing the program.
That is exactly what he did. I don't recall this debate coming up during
the election, which would have been a good time to have it.


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://startpage.com/
>
> From the website above:
>
> Take a deep breath. You're safe here.
>
> *Click here* to learn how StartPage protects you from government
> surveillance. <https://startpage.com/eng/prism-program-exposed.html>
>
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>
> According to this source, those behind Startpage.com will soon offer an
> email service, Startmail,     https://www.startmail.com/
>
> I heard about this last night on AM Coast to Coast talk radio.
>
> But consider what this source claims about the security offered:
>
> Federal spy agencies "have the expertise to overcome any kind of
> encryption system that is used in commercial systems!"
>
>
> http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2013/06/14/ixquick-and-startpage-are-starting-an-email-service-more-secure-than-gmail/
>
> June 14, 2013
>
> Now, IxQuick, the people behind StartPage, are preparing StartMail<https://www.startmail.com/>,
> an email system that will offer user privacy as well – of a sort.
>
> The StartMail system, which will soon enter Beta testing, will not engage
> in data mining of the sort that has become pervasive in Gmail. The emails
> will be encrypted using (“PGP encryption”)… and it all sounds great… until
> one realizes that the federal spy agencies have the expertise to overcome
> any kind of encryption system that is used in commercial systems.
>
> In the abstract, StartMail seems like a timely idea. In practice, I’m
> skeptical that NSA cyberspies can be kept out of any email system.
>
> Techies, I’m asking for your help in understanding these issues. Could
> StartMail actually be made sustainably secure from the government’s online
> spies? Is StartPage really only secure for now because it’s too small at
> the moment to catch the attention of Big Brother?
>
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