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I've gotten a few FReepmails asking for email services recommendations and I don't have the technical background to either warn against or recommend such services. One FReeper said Google is soon going to implement facial recognition or thumbprint ID etc. - is there anything out there still 'reasonably' private and not shifting to biometrics...yet? PS: Yes, I'm logged in. ;D

I've become super-careful and sensitive to online security threats in recent years, through personal experience an those who I love. One question I have advanced is the wisdom of "unsubscribing" to various junk emails from senders who I have no idea how I've been connected to in the first place. Many of them are political emails, which I can understand, since these orgs get names from databases in political donations and party affiliations. I will readily unsubscribe from org e-mailings I'm familiar with, but what about mystery ones? I'm very reticent to click on ANY link without knowing exactly what...

* The tech entrepreneur has revealed a product called 'XMail' is 'coming' * Elon Musk launches his answer to ChatGPT called 'Grok' Elon Musk has already released his own version of ChatGPT. Now it seems the tech entrepreneur is about to take on Google's Gmail by creating an email service of his own. In an exchange on his social media platform X, Musk has revealed that a product called 'XMail' is 'coming'. He's offered no more details about the service, so it's unclear when it may be available, although it's expected to be integrated within the X app. MailOnline has...

The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Internet was publishing more than a decade’s worth of its internal email — and that of thousands of Securence clients — in plain text out on the Internet and just a click away for anyone with a Web browser. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minn., U.S. Internet is a regional ISP that provides fiber and wireless Internet service. The ISP’s Securence division bills itself “a...

Gmail has gotten to the point that it regularly locks me out of my accounts for a week or more. Im tired of them using phony security concerns to track my location, accounts, devices, etc. Looking for free accounts for personal use. Interested in hearing about your experience using other emails, both the pros and cons. What are your suggestions?

What happen to the FR feature that helped convert webpages to email? Right click on tab to activate.

I've used several email programs in the past. Mozilla's, Outlook, yahoo. Right now I use gmail because my late wife and I used it for so much that I had to consolidate stuff to work on an assortment of issues. If they still work as easily I should be able to put in the SMTP settings and have the emails all imported into whichever email program. Does that still apply? I'd like from FR folks a few suggestions that are user friendly and as insulated from leftist manipulations as one can get. Thanks.

I am surprised that anyone is surprised that, as vice president in the Obama administration, Joe Biden used email accounts under fake names to loop his son Hunter into official US government business. This is how the Obama administration rolled. When high officials were involved in a dodgy activity they wanted to shield from public disclosure laws, they frequently used pseudonymous email accounts. That included President Barack Obama himself. As I argued at the time, one of the main reasons the Obama Justice Department whitewashed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s criminally negligent mishandling of classified information, through the lawless homebrew...

Last year, at an event at the White House, former president Barack Obama jokingly referred to the current president as “Vice President Biden.” At the time, it was described as the more popular politician “reminding Biden who’s boss.” Yet, this needling carried an added bite, given reports of Obama’s private doubts about Biden’s judgment. In 2020, Obama had famously warned fellow Democrats, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f— things up.” Obama is now being asked to bail Biden out from another debacle of his own making, going back to his time in Obama’s administration. Various committees and private groups are...

Then-Vice President Joe Biden used his “Robin Ware” alias to email Hunter Biden in 2014 about a potential White House employment of then-Deputy White House Counsel John McGrail, emails from Hunter’s “laptop from hell” show. On June 23, 2014, Hunter emailed “Robin Ware” from a Rosemont Seneca Partners email address. “Before you fill position pls talk to me—– J. McGrail very much wants to serve as detail fr treasury,” Hunter wrote.

Then-Vice President Biden apparently used a pseudonym to discuss a future White House hire with his son, Hunter Biden, according to 2014 emails from Hunter’s laptop. In an email on June 23, 2014, Hunter emailed "Robin Ware" from his company email at Rosemont Seneca Partners. "Before you fill position pls talk to me----- J. McGrail very much wants to serve as detail fr treasury," Hunter wrote. A response just minutes later from the email account robinware456@gmail.com reads: "Re Johnny call me right away Dad." Robin Ware is one of several pseudonyms Biden used during his vice presidency to discuss government...

CALIFORNIA — Hurricane Hilary made landfall today in California, quickly destroying tens of thousands of emails upon her arrival. "My house is fine, but my email server -- annihilated," said San Diego resident Jim McKay. "Nature is so weird like that." Despite weakening to a category one hurricane, Hilary still packed a vicious punch upon making landfall. "I'm ok, but the storm somehow crushed my cell phone," said local woman Alicia Gonzales. "I mean, it's like someone took a hammer to this thing. People are letting down their guard because Hilary has weakened, but she's still got power where it...

In late November 2014 -- before the rest of the world knew that American Martin O'Connor was about to be released from detention in Turkey -- the U.S. embassy in Istanbul sent an email to the State Department that was then forwarded to senior advisers to then-Vice President Joe Biden, the Obama White House point man for many foreign policy crises. "The lead attorney for Mr. O'Connor reports that the court granted the detention appeal and he expected Mr. O'Connor to be released from jail today, barring any unforeseen problems," the U.S. embassy in Istanbul wrote in an email that...

Hillary couldn’t be proven guilty without proving the president guilty as well. ‘How is this not classified?” So exclaimed Hillary Clinton’s close aide and confidante, Huma Abedin. The FBI had just shown her an old e-mail exchange, over Clinton’s private account, between the then-secretary of state and a second person, whose name Abedin did not recognize. The FBI then did what the FBI is never supposed to do: The agents informed their interviewee (Abedin) of the identity of the second person. It was the president of the United States, Barack Obama, using a pseudonym to conduct communications over a non-secure...

President Biden has taken fire this week for reportedly using aliases and "secret" email addresses as vice president in messages to his son Hunter Biden, who had business in Ukraine at the time. Under former President Barack Obama's administration, White House officials defended the use of alternate email addresses. During a 2013 press briefing, the Obama-Biden White House, amid accusations that individuals within the administration had been using "secret" email addresses for correspondence, highlighted its belief that using "alternate email addresses" for high-ranking officials made "eminent sense." While fielding questions from reporters at the briefing, Jay Carney, White House press...

Hillary couldn’t be proven guilty without proving the president guilty as well. "How is this not classified?” So exclaimed Hillary Clinton’s close aide and confidante, Huma Abedin. The FBI had just shown her an old e-mail exchange, over Clinton’s private account, between the then-secretary of state and a second person, whose name Abedin did not recognize. The FBI then did what the FBI is never supposed to do: The agents informed their interviewee (Abedin) of the identity of the second person. It was the president of the United States, Barack Obama, using a pseudonym to conduct communications over a non-secure...

Newly-unearthed emails reveal that Joe Biden used several personal emails, all bearing false names, during his vice presidency to discuss foreign business with his son Hunter. As reported by Just The News, one such email was ...

One of the more underreported stories of the week is Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) of the House Oversight Committee requesting that the National Archives fork over every email involving the Biden Racketeering Family and their “dealings” with Burisma and Ukraine. What no one seems to realize is that there are unknown names that have popped up in emails, “Robert L. Peters,” “Robin Ware,” and “JRB Ware.”JRB are the initials of Joseph Robinette Biden. #NotVeryCleverFACT-O-RAMA! Miranda Devine, the New York Post reporter who broke the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop, found and confirmed Joe Biden’s three sock puppets back in 2021.Now...

COMMENT #1: Hello Mr. Armstrong, I just did some homework: Between August 3rd and this morning, I received only 44% of your New Post blog e-mails. Out of the 48 posts, only 21 ended up in my inbox! The censoring covers politics, Woke, war, corruption, tyranny, climate change, even humor (Aug 4th Trudeau’s Tinder Profile)! Today, I didn’t get the London Riot and The Climate Change Hoax. “They” are really against “us” and mainly want their propaganda to go out. The promise that the internet would open the world to everyone is the greatest hoax of all. Thank you for...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and former Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci have clashed repeatedly in the Senate in the past over whether the U.S. funded virus “gain-of-function” research, a charge Fauci adamantly denied. It was clear the two men didn’t like each other, but now Paul is ratcheting it up to another level—he’s officially filing a criminal referral with the Department of Justice alleging that the good doctor flat-out lied to him in sworn testimony.This directly contradicts everything he said in committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded any gain of function, and it’s...