As mentioned in the previous lecture and this lecture and in the next lectures I'm going to show you
a number of methods to send and receive emails.
And then you can sit down yourself compare them and see which wants you to best based on the reason
why you need an email address and based on your threat model.
Now the first thing that I want to cover is temporary email accounts as the name suggests.
These are email accounts that will work for for a short period of time and then they expire deleting
all of your emails and all of the information on them.
Now the cool thing about these accounts is first of all they're temporary.
They require no set up so they want to request any personal information and they won't waste any time.
As soon as you load the web site that offers the service you will be presented with your inbox which
you can use straight away.
So as you can see this can be very useful in many cases.
If you wanted to communicate with someone for a short period of time or if you get asked for an email
by a Web site and the Web sites will send you a confirmation link so you actually need to have a valid
email then you can use this and in many cases you're asked to have a company email and these emails
are great because they actually do look like company emails unlike other emails that you get from Gmail
and so on.
Now the main disadvantage with these email accounts is that they are relatively easy to break into.
So you want to be careful about that but if you're using encryption which I'm going to show you later
on in the course then even if someone reads your messages your data should be secure and encrypted as
long as your keys are encrypted.
But that's something to talk about for another lecture.
For now let's have a look on how to use these temporary accounts an example.
Right here we have temp mail address dot com.
There is also term mail dot com.
And I'm going to include a full list of all of these Web sites in the resources of this lecture.
There are also hidden online services that offer the same service.
So this Web site right here guerrilla mail dot com right here I'm actually on the clear net Web site.
As you can see but they also offer a hidden service.
So right here I have the DOT onion hidden Service Web site which is called Tor guerilla mail and pretty
much it's the same functionality it gives you a temporary inbox which you can use for one hour after
the hour everything gets deleted so using the inbox is very simple.
You can see first of all you can actually set the name that you want to use for this email and here
you can also set the domain so you can pick the AD domain from any domains that you want in here.
And like I said this can be very useful if the Web site you're signing up for requires you to have a
company email once you have these picked up.
You can actually copy this email and share it on that Web site or send it to anyone that you want to
receive emails from.
But using the e-mail like this makes it easier to guess your idea and gain access to this inbox.
So a better way of sharing it is to use the scrambled link in here.
So this is basically the same e-mail that you see in here.
It's just scrambled so that it's more difficult to know the I.D. so you can copy this and give it to
anyone that wants to send you an e-mail.
And just as an example I'm going to go to the clear net version of this Web site.
This one right here guerilla mail dot com and I'm going to click on compose I'm going to set thee to
e-mail to the e-mail that I have here on the darknet and let's set the subject to test and set the body
to this is a test message now as you can see you can even add attachments.
If you want but I will talk about file sharing and more details in the future.
And once you're done we can just click on send and perfect as you can see it's telling you that the
message is dispatched.
Let's go to the darknet inbox in here and see if we're going to receive it and perfect as you can see
we got a new message in here.
So if we click on this and we have the content that we expect which says this is a text message.
Now one thing I should note is as you can see here in the clear net version of this Web site you have
the compose button where you can compose and send e-mails.
But in the darknet version this functionality is not working as expected.
And even if you click on reply it's not going to work.
Now hopefully they fix this in the future by the time that you watch this lecture.
But for now the darknet version can only be used to receive emails but that's not a big problem because
as you can see through Tor and through tales we can actually still access clear net Web sites and we
can make full use of this functionality.
So like I said this is one option of receiving and sending emails.
The pros is that it requires no information no time is wasted on signing up and everything gets deleted
within an hour or if you're using other services such as this one you can pick how long you want to
keep the account for the cons.
This might be easier to break into.
And it is temporary.
So it will eventually expire.
Therefore it might not be good for all scenarios or for everybody and like I said these are just two
examples of Web sites that offer these services.
Check out the resources of this lecture for a list of more Web sites that offer the same service with
slightly different features.