We had a thread on LowEndTalk about cock.li, the “private email” service.  If you want some history of their notoriety, check out this story.  HackerNews said this week that the service was on “red alert”, and now it’s 404’d.

According to the proprietors:

Cock.li will shut down before becoming complicit in crimes against its own userbase by duress of any government or organization.

For nearly 11 years, cock.li has remained one of the only public e-mail providers to allow registration as anonymously as a library card. This has only been possible by the dedication of our entire lives to this bit. Our small team of 3-5 people has permanently sacrificed the stability of our lives so Internet users worldwide can more-or-less enjoy the comfort of being able to access e-mail without requiring a phone number or other surveillance document.

There are a lot of players in the “private email” service indistry – ProtonMail is a common choice.

But soon there will be one new entrant: community provider IncogNET!

IncogNET is known for providing privacy minded solutions that cater to internet hobbyist, privacy and free speech advocates, businesses, web developers, and more. It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that we’re wanting to provide a more private email solution to cater to these same groups. Currently in active development, MyPrivateInbox, a ‘bring your own domain’ private email solution.

Planned or current features: Webmail accessible over multiple privacy networks, full disk encryption of mail server, at-rest encryption for actual emails, built in PGP Encryption tools, E-Mail scheduler (Write it now, send it later, automatically) and SMTP, IMAP, and POP support for added flexilibilty.

Nice!  IncogNET certainly has the reputation to be a trusted player in this space.  Their Q&A has all the right answers.  Servers will be in Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

The service itself will offer SMTP/IMAP/POP support as well as a webmail client that will be available over Tor and the I2P network as well as the regular internet. There is encryption at rest for your actual emails as well as general full disk encryption on the servers, webmail PGP options, spam filtering, Mail Scheduling, DDoS protection for mail servers, and more!

Aside from our mail servers having full disk encryption, we also utilize encryption at rest for actual emails. Additionally, users may choose to encrypt their communications further by using the built-in Enigma PGP encryption tool available over webmail. There, you may create, import and manage keys, sign, encrypt and decrypt from webmail.

Cool!  As the saying goes, watch this space for further news.

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