Easter egg on Guerrilla Mail
Hint.. There’s an Easter Egg on Guerrilla Mail. Telnet to grr.la on port 25, then type in HELP (enter)
Apple wants to patent Disposable Email
A patent application has been filed by Apple Inc. on Feb 13, 2014, claiming to have invented an easy way to use disposable email. It can be viewed here: Patent application US20140047043 The patent claims that disposable email is difficult to use, and therefore, not widely used. The solution they propose mostly describes how…
Statement on Harvard incident, to clear up some facts about Guerrilla Mail
This is a response to the recent media reports about a student attending Harvard who used Guerrilla Mail and Tor (https://www.torproject.org/) to issue a bomb hoax in order to get out of a final exam. The story spread world-wide with a lot of miss-information about Guerrilla Mail and what it does. We want to clear…
Guerrilla Mail’s Sending feature – 1 year in retrospect
The email sending feature has been live for over a year now. Here is a blog post with some reflections thus far. First, why was this feature introduced? The biggest motivation was because this was the most requested feature. Sometimes our users want to forward an email they have received. Sometimes they need to reply…
One billion emails processed!
Yesterday, we passed the one billion emails processed mark! Most of it has been spam or other junk including phishing and scam emails. Sure, there are probably billions of such emails sent daily, which makes our count just a drop in the ocean, but we’re glad to make a difference, however small… The number of…
Why we like Bitcoin @ Guerrilla Mail?
We really like Bitcoin here at Guerrilla Mail. We first blogged about it in June 2011, when we were excited to propose a novel system for email stamps: https://www.guerrillamail.com/blog/stamps-for-email/ Since then, we have seen Bitcoin decline, rise again, decline and rise again. Each time, coming back stronger than ever. We’re not talking here about the…
New Feature: Send bitcoins without knowing someone’s bitcoin address
Guerrilla Mail has a new feature: https://www.guerrillamail.com/bitcoin The way it works is that all you do is fill in the “To” and “From”, and then click “Send”. Then deposit some bitcoins and an email gets sent to the other party with instructions for how to withdraw them. You can also track it, and receive a…
Outlook.com / Hotmail does not encrypt your email
When you visit Outlook, your browser’s URL bar will turn green and a padlock icon next to it. You’re safe from snooping, or so you thought? When testing Outlook’s servers today, it was discovered that their servers do not support encryption for incoming email. So if you send an email from someone@gmail.com to someone@hotmail.com, the…
The burden of Telecommunications data retention laws and subpoenas
Lavabit.com (an email service provider like Gmail/Hotmail, but with better privacy features) abruptly shut down this week, possibly due to complications from a subpoena, e.g. “National Security Letter” (NSL). This brings some concerns for email service providers everywhere, uncertainty for the users of email services likewise. Guerrilla Mail doesn’t store any email for more than…
New short ‘domain hack’ – grr.la
GuerrillaMail has a new short ‘domain hack’ URL http://grr.la/ Memorize this URL for when you need a new email address quick! You can also use this domain for email. No need to pre-visit GuerrillaMail, just think of anything@grr.la and check it later. Your address needs to have the letters from a-z, numbers 0-9. Be creative….