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

[Ted Moffett]

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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