If you are worried that some malicious cracker or your employer could be violating your privacy and reading private emails, Whisper Bot could be of some help. With Whisper Bot, the sender can write a note (in rich text) online and the recipient can retrieve the note via a secure (https) web page.
You may be thinking that if someone can spy on your email, nothing can stop him or her from visiting the URL that is available inside the email. That’s true so in that case you need to have some information which only the recipient knows – like a secret code.
While creating a note, you can optionally set a secret code that the recipient must enter before he can retrieve your message. Obviously, this secret code should not be sent in the email but communicated using another medium like phone or in-person.
Whisper Note may look like any other password protected text notes service but it’s the anonymous and secure part that makes it a bit different.
Also see: How to Send Anonymous Mail
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/send-secure-anonymous-email-for-free/6663/
Tags: anonymous, encrypted, feature, notes, privacy, secure, text, Email
Reader Comments
Am I getting something wrong or is there actually NO anonymity in this web-service?
Written by awokenMIND on 01.20.09
I think the guy who once sent an email to APJ (and got himself caught) should read Labnol…
Written by Arun Basil Lal on 01.21.09
Thanks for taking the time to review our free WhisperBot. We’re quite honored that labnol included our little service.
@awokenMIND – Not sure what you mean about it not being anonymous. My guess is you’re referring to the optional inclusion of your email address. This is simply an optional feature if you want the person to possibly send a reply. You do not need to include it (as it states on the site). Hopefully that cleared things up :-)
@Arun – You betcha!
Written by WhisperBot on 01.21.09
I get it, the mail is sent through WhisperBot not by the sender itself. Thus there’s no connection between the sender, the recipient and the online stored message.
Written by awokenMIND on 01.21.09