Episode 13: Upgrade Your Email Privacy With ProtonMail, Tutanota, CTemplar, AnonAddy, and Simple Login

The Australian Bitcoin Podcast is focused on Australian bitcoin and privacy content, including educational episodes, recent news, and guest interviews.

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References
https://learn.hardblock.com.au/how-to-upgrade-your-email-privacy/

** Please note that CTemplar closed down as of May 2022.

Notes
- OnTheRun to accept bitcoin payments in Australia
- Overton window shifting to include bitcoin, inflation, and the debt crisis
- Why upgrade your email privacy?
- Google is monitoring you, censoring content, and feeding/teaching their artificial intelligence systems with your data
- What to look for in a private email provider?
- End-to-end and zero-knowledge encryption, free and open source, and good reputation
- What's the easiest way to make the move to a private email account?
- Having a Password Manager can make transitioning to private email easier
- Keep your old email account open and gradually transfer data and subscriptions across to your newer private email service - this makes the process easier and reduces the chance of forgetting to transfer something across
- Step 1: Sign-up to a private email provider, eg, ProtonMail, Tutanota, or CTemplar
- ProtonMail is a good all-round choice (easy to sign-up privately, more features than others, long-term reputation, and continuing to build a privacy-focused ecosystem including calendar, cloud storage, VPN service, etc)
- Try to sign-up without linking the new email address to an email, phone number, or IP address already associated with you - this is probably unnecessary, but good for privacy practice!
- How to choose a username for your new private email address (full name, first name, pseudonym or otherwise)?
- Step 2: Sign-up to an email alias forwarding service, eg, AnonAddy or SimpleLogin
- How do email alias forwarding services work?
- What username to choose for email alias forwarding services?
- Step 3: Provide an email alias for every website you sign-up to in future
- How else can you use email alias forwarding service (eg, replying from the alias and disabling aliases)?
- Checking yourself out on www.haveibeenpwned.com to see if any of your emails or passwords have been compromised in known data breaches
- Good privacy can result in better security, eg, protecting against credential stuffing attacks based on data breaches
- Recent MailChimp and HubSpot data breaches
- Social engineering attacks are harder to employ against someone who uses a private email, email alias forwarding service, and a password manager
- Which password manager should you use? BitWarden - although there'll be a separate podcast and article released about that soon
- If you're missing Google Meets audio and video calling, then look into Jitsi, Signal, or Impervious.ai's upcoming browser
- Don't let perfect be the enemy of good! Start today and make gradual steps over time