The end of the nation state and the end of government as we know it.
If you receive your password confirmation via e-mail, it defeats the purpose as the enesay reads the e-mail with the password on it.
Some people using Tor for bitcoin transactions found it wasn’t as secure as they thought once the government got seriously interested. And, there’s been rumors of backdoors for other encrypted communications as well. I applaud the idea, but I’d be wary for anything serious.
Breakable.
The only secure soon is a random private key between you and each email partner. That is, a different key for each.
Yes, one must get that key to the recipient, and this is a problem. But if it is a very very long key...gigabytes...and truly random, the NSA is Obama’d...er...screwed.
Anything less can be broken...sooner or later.
I’ve been thinking about the digital equivalent of spread-spectrum radio, where messages are disassembled, sent, and reassembled non-simultaneously with different paths and different technologies.
Get your amateur radio license, it has never been easier and radios cheaper. If the internet goes down, it won’t matter if your email and chat app is secure because it won’t work.
“Our patented, cutting-edge technology doesn’t use relay servers to deliver your communications. We establish a private, electronic stream between you and the database and your recipient and the database. “
Means nothing. Everything you send over the internet can be monitored. Everything that can be monitored can be intercepted and decoded, if the desire is there to do so.
Claims to the contrary are pure snake oil.
There's nothing private or cutting edge about this. This is how email was done prior to the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). As long as everybody uses the same mail service, nothing gets routed, whether it's gmail or hotmail or yahoo.
However, unless you use PGP or secure-mime mail, the folks at the server can read your mail, as well as anybody with a warrant.
So, if you get one of these PMB accounts, the only (semi-)secure mail is with another PMB account.
Otherwise, get a security certificate and arrange to use PGP with all your correspondents.
Also, while mail can bounce between mail servers, it'd be pretty strange for mail from gmail to yahoo not to go directly between gmail and yahoo. And in any case, mail across the web between you and anybody (including PMB) crosses multiple routers where the traffic can be monitored. At the moment, using only https connections helps, but some ciphers used with https are not secure.
So, if you are worried about mail, use only PGP (or other) encrypted mime to protect the content end-to-end, and be careful about what https ciphers are used to protect against somebody watching where you send mail. If you are really worried about the second bit, you are out of luck when using any mail server subject to USA warrants.
What we need is an open standard with real encryption that has the backing of the international community. There should be zero government involvement of any kind. Perhaps something written by Linus Torvolds.
honey pot is the oldest gambit in the spying business.