On: Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists

[onreact-com]

Try this next time:

Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress & Tor

http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/guide/

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Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents

http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/handbook_bloggers_cyberdissidents...

[restruct → onreact-com]

But don't choose Gmail as your webmail provider?

[mikeryan → restruct]

I am not an expert in this.

But I think if you get a Gmail account with non identifiable information. Then access Gmail through Tor (There's a Tor plugin for Firefox) you've done enough to make it extremely hard to track you down.

[jacquesm → mikeryan]

You'd better make sure you do that from a 'virgin' machine then or your cookies or other signature information will give you away in a heartbeat.

[aarongough → jacquesm]

Or my favourite: a virtual machine with a snapshot of it's state just after the install of all your necessary programs, HDD set to read only (like you can do in parallels) and used from there...