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[Music] how do I send an email that can't be traced back to me online anonymity or the ability to communicate in a way that doesn't expose your identity is actually a really interesting topic it's very difficult a lot of news organizations for example face this problem frequently when they have individuals who want to expose information that is sensitive and could reflect badly or perhaps impact their lives in a negative way so let's have a look at some of the ways that you might be able to do this but more importantly some of the ways that might trip you up and expose you without you realizing that that could happen how do I send an email that can't be traced back to me don't send anonymous email from work or home it's going to take some extra steps to keep from being traced I'm Leo Newton boom this is ask Leo calm question there are problems at work that I need to inform my main office about the problem I'm having is that the emails sent to the office are being seen by several people if I send them at work if I send them from home my personal email address will be revealed and I need to remain anonymous the politics that my work plays are vicious to say the least what software is available so that I can send them an anonymous email and my email address be hidden this is a surprisingly common situation it's also surprisingly easy to get caught even if you do take steps to stay hidden I'll review some of the approaches and some of the risks sending an anonymous email you've got a classic whistleblower problem you're someone working in an organization who needs to safely securely and most important of all anonymously inform someone about a problem at that organization if you're found out at the source you run the risk retribution termination or worse clearly you should not do this from a computer at work regardless of what an anonymizing technologies you use it's likely your activity can still be traced the organization could have many different technologies in place including but not limited to spyware that allows them to identify which computer was used to send an email and potentially even who was at the computer at that time your home is not anonymous you should not use your personal email that much is also clear in fact you shouldn't do this from your home computer at all while email messages typically don't include the IP address of their origination there's enough information in the email headers you don't normally see to allow the email to be traced to the location it came from it's not always easy might require your ISP and in some cases requires law enforcement to get involved but it's possible that any email sent from your home could be traced so what to do hiding your email address probably the easiest thing to do is to hide your email address the right way to solve this problem is to set up a brand new free email account using Gmail outlook.com or some other popular free services an interesting option might be protonmail billed as a secure email Bay based in Switzerland encryption is baked into protonmail and being located in Switzerland makes some of the legal approaches to discovering who you are more difficult when you set up the account use completely bogus information use none of your personal information make sure the name is fake the recovery information is fake everything associated with that account is fake home is where the danger lives once again don't set it up from home because your home IP address could be associated with the account that could allow you to be discovered particularly if law enforcement is involved go to a library or any place not your home or company that has a public computer you can use without identifying yourself set up the account and send your email from there there's still no guarantee there's still risk all we've really done is stack the deck in favor of not being discovered for example if you use a public computer at a library it's conceivable there are security cameras that record your presence if they can tell your message was sent at 10:30 a.m. on a Tuesday they could go back and look at security cameras to see you sitting at the computer but the bottom line remains use a different computer use a different account make sure all the account information is fake that's the best you can do will the email be seen my assumption is that the content of your message will make it clear you have something legitimate to say however it's important to understand that they may not pay attention at all they may get these all the time and ignore them out of hand or they may assume if you're not willing to be identified you lack legitimacy there are many many reasons your anonymous note may not have its intended effect what about a letter my honest recommendation send a letter physical put it in the mail anonymous letter this bypasses all the technology that could be used to thwart your attempts to communicate or be used to trace back to you it's also possible a physical letter might get more attention and stand a better chance of achieving the desired result for links related to this article or to leave a comment visit ask Leo calm slash 5 3 6 9 I'm Leo Newton boom this is ask Leo calm thanks for watching [Music]