E-mail security
Most
people don’t have CBI/IB sniffing through their personal emails, but people
grossly underestimate how transparent their digital communications have become.
Anyone
can read your emails because its so easy to do. What people realize is that
hacking and spying went main stream a decade ago.
To
secure your email
1.
Hide your location
v You
can mask your IP address using TOR (TOOL).
v You
can also use a virtual private network which adds a layer of security to public
Wi-Fi networks.
v Email
providers like Google and yahoo keep login records, which reveal IP addresses,
for 18 months during which they can easily be asked for data legally.
v A
letter on the letterhead of DCP/SP of the police to network service providers
can reveal lot of individual data.
2.
Go off the record
v At
bare minimum, choose, “off the record” feature on Google talk, Google instant
messaging client, which ensures that nothing
typed is saved or searchable in either person’s Gmail account.
3.
Encrypt your messages
v Email
encryption services like GPG, help protect digital secrets from eavesdroppers
without an encryption key, any message stored in an inbox, or reached from
cloud, with look like gibberish.
v Wickr,
a mobile app, performs a similar service for smart phones.
4.
Set your self-destruct timer
v Services
like 10 minute mail allows users to open an Email addresses and send a message,
and the address self-destructs 10 minutes later.
v Wickr
also allows users to set a self destruct timer for mobile communications.
5.
Don’t mess-up
v It
is hard to pull of one of these steps let alone all of them all the time. It
takes just one mistake forgetting to use TOR, leaving your encryption keys. Where
someone can find them, connecting to an airport
Wi-Fi just once to ruin you.
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Article By
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CSE Departement
LAQSHYA Institute of Technology & Sciences
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