Cispa

[walter]

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)
is a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. government and technology and manufacturing companies. The stated aim of the bill is to help the U.S government investigate cyber threats and ensure the security of networks against cyberattacks

[Keith Alan]

Sounds like a good idea.

[walter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UfDUnM9bcWE#

TOTALLY FREE "Encryption" to Outisde Email,

[EZrhythm]

Won't be good enough with this behemoth coming online in September; http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/

The only solution is; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

https://freenetproject.org/

[shikamaru]

One could run their own e-mail server ....

[Treefarmer]

One could run their own e-mail server ....

Sounds interesting to me.
What does it take to do that?
What kind of system is needed?

[shikamaru]

Sounds interesting to me.
What does it take to do that?
What kind of system is needed?

To do it right, I would recommend doing it as a virtualization farm.
The farm would have two nodes. You can even provision the space for other VMs running server software.
With just the two nodes, you could build your own private cloud complete with clustering and SDN (Software Defined Networking).

Here is a list of mail server applications.
The server would still need some sort of Internet connection, but the traffic could be secured with SSL/TLS or some other encryption protocol.

This is probably not something a newbie could do, but it would be very educational if done.

To do a basic mail server, all you need is Linux and sendmail.