Gate mail
Tor Mail was a service that was designed and operated as a "hidden service" and enabled the anonymous sending of emails from both inside and outside the Tor network.
business
Tor Mail offered access to an anonymous e-mail inbox without requiring users to be identified.
"No emails, logs or personal data were stored on those servers, thus it doesn't matter if they are seized or shut down. (For example: Neither e-mails, log files or user data were saved, so it does not matter whether they are confiscated or closed) "
Users could use SMTP , POP3 and IMAP via webmail or mail client .
Shutdown
At the beginning of August 2013, Tor Mail initially went offline with a “maintenance work in progress” message and is now completely inaccessible. Due to the temporal proximity to the arrest of Eric Eoin Marques, the operator of the Freedom Hosting service , and the subsequent suspicious activity of JavaScript code on other websites also stored there, the shutdown is interpreted as a precautionary measure by the Tor-Mail operator.
In January 2014, it became known that the FBI had access to the data on the Tor Mail server. It is assumed that the location of the server in France became known in the course of the investigation against Freedom Hosting. A legal assistance request to France, in whose territory the server was located, allowed the FBI to access the server's data from July 22 to August 2, 2013.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freedom Hosting arrest and takedown linked to Tor privacy compromise , nakedsecurity.com. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ^ Feds Are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity , Wired - Website. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ↑ heise online : Report: FBI has a copy of the Tor mail server , January 28, 2014
- ↑ Kevin Poulsen: If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox , Wired , January 27, 2014