In a shocking recent news story, CIA Director David Petraeus stepped down from his position after an FBI investigation revealed his extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell, his biographer. The information was actually obtained indirectly by using location data from Gmail.
Everything we do online is linked in some fashion, but there are ways to keep your communications untraceable. I found this shocking article, How CIA Director David Petraeus’ Emails Were Traced (and How to Protect Yourself), and I knew I had to share it with you. I think you’ll find it very interesting.
If you want to keep your communications private, it’s important to learn about the lapses in security that can make public what you think is private. Three tips for keeping your emails private and untraceable are:
- Hide your IP address. A VPN (virtual private network) service such as Hamachi will work on its own, assuming it does not give up your IP address, but added security is web proxy Privoxy. It’s important to use the VPN every time you log into your email for this to work.
- Use disposable email addresses on both ends of the conversation. These addresses self-destruct after an email is read. Another option is to make sure you don’t use the same provider to send email messages that you don’t want linked. That’s what got Paula Broadwell in trouble.
- Keep all of your private stuff offline. If privacy is crucial, don’t put the information in an email. Stick with text messages.
Have you ever used any of those three methods for keeping your communications private? How have they worked out for you? What other strategies do you employ to keep your emails from being traced? Hope to hear from you about this.
Tags: Frank Bates, internet privacy, power4patriots, privacy

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Rain Lady
34 days ago
Blog post, voter registration, facebook, twitter, tex messages, bank statements, web sites we visit, churches we belong to and political parties we donate to,…Emails? Who are we trying to kid??? They KNOW us already. Perhaps we should go back the the Pony Express. When SHTF…We will all be on their hit list because we are Patriots. Patriots are opposed to the New World Order and Agenda 21. Hitler had a hit list also. We all know how it ends.
Sandy Culberson
35 days ago
I agree with part of the privacy for emails. But text messaging can also be traced. Better to talk face to face if you can.
JB JACOBI
35 days ago
TIME TO LOOK FOR INTEGRITY NEIGHBORS TO FILL THE SPOTS OF OUR NEW GOVERNMENTS; NATION AND STATE. WE WILL LITERALLY TURN OFF THE PRESENT JUNK SYSTEM AND USHER/DEPORT THE OLD AND LAUD IN THE NEW. EVERYBODY STUDY THE DECLARATION AND CONSTITUTION PLUS, BE VERY SAVY IN YOUR PRAYERS.
Linda
35 days ago
Frank … 500 documents of mine associated with NWO, etc have been removed from my computer, probably my emails too! I may be “cooked” and so may you!
Mrs M June Cramer
35 days ago
The best way to avoid problems is to live your life knowing that our Creator God knows everything we do and don’t do, so live a transparent life and you will never be ashamed or worried about your private communications.
Jeffery Sikes
53 days ago
These are not tricks and they will not stop your communications from being monitored. If you truly want to stop all e-mail monitoring it requires point to point, encrypted e-mail communications. Which means you must have your own server and the clients of that server must have the same encryption software.
The government system searches for key words, phrases, and locations, in order to select e-mail it wishes to capture and review. So it would take ones on enigma to convert words and phrases into something the government filter observes as harmless communication, an algorithmic feet which most of use do not posses the knowledge nor the time to screw around with. Remember two Chechen college students, one of which was on the FBI watch list, and which communicated boldly online, and where the US government was warned by the Russians, were simply ignored by the US government as a credible threat. This can only have one of four conclusions;
1) either the government knowingly allowed the Boston Bombing to occur in order to gain politically, by allowing a crisis event to occur. There were a vast amount of special forces on the scene during the event, so they were looking for someone
or
2) they are so focused on other, non critical events or key political groups, that they simply missed the obvious signs
or
3) the agencies are so disorganized and limited by the personal wants of the heads of each agency, that they don’t communicate with each other or with the White House.
4) Inter agency distrust is rampant within the various Obama administration departments and therefore information sharing is kept to a minimum. The media release which indicates Mr Obama does not include cabinet members in meetings, would suggest with strong evidence, that this is the more likely scenario. A house divided can not stand and the Boston Bombings are a testament to that fact.
If you want to keep your e-mail private, the simplest thing is to have your mail client download all of your mail to your computer so a copy of that mail is not left on the ISP’s server. If you are really concerned, place a computer in your network which is grabbing your e-mail from the isp server every few minutes. Using a e-mail service which does not track is the best solution to assuring your e-mail is completely removed from the server. Most people are not involved in criminal activity and simply wish to keep their communications private, therefore using the solution above and simply moving your important e-mail to an encrypted USB drive should be more than sufficient for retaining and securing, those e-mails you wish to keep.
Jeffrey McDonald
75 days ago
Everything that goes through the air is captured by DHS, email, text, phone calls…..EVERYTHING. There is no more 4th Amendment. Now, whether they have enough folks to read or listen to all communications is another story. So, you can encrypt your communications but I believe that civilians are only allowed 256 bit encryption, so if the government wants to read or listen to your communications, they can.
joe
77 days ago
where do you get Hamachi?
RP
146 days ago
“stick with text messages”
Lol, really man? Maybe you should look into that a little bit more.
Lisa
175 days ago
How are text messages private?