Proton vs Tuta vs Self-Hosted: Email Privacy, Practically Assessed

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000

“Private email” is one of those phrases that sounds like a single product and is in fact three completely different bargains. You can pay an encrypted provider to hold your mailbox in a way they can’t read. You can pay a different encrypted provider with a different idea of how that should work. Or you can host the lot yourself and own the whole problem. I’ve run all three at various points, and the right answer depends entirely on which trade-off you can live with — so let’s be specific about what each one actually costs you.

DNS Over HTTPS at Home: Running Your Own DoH Resolver

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Plain DNS is the last great open postcard of the internet. You’ve encrypted your web traffic with TLS, you’ve got a VPN you trust, you’ve hardened SSH to within an inch of its life — and then your machine cheerfully shouts every single domain name you look up, in clear text, over UDP port 53, to whatever resolver your ISP handed you at DHCP time. Anyone on the path can read it, and plenty of middleboxes do.

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Proton vs Tuta vs Self-Hosted: Email Privacy, Practically Assessed

DNS Over HTTPS at Home: Running Your Own DoH Resolver