Email Stephen D. Cope

What is my email address?

Because of the scourge of spam I'm a bit cautious about giving out my email address. I used an email address one time in 2013 and 13 years later I daily get incredible offers.

You can guess my email: my first name at the domain of this website: sdc.org.nz

My turnaround time isn't super fast, but I do read all my personally addressed email.

For other non-email ways to contact me, skip down.

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How would you prefer to protect your email?

Your email is important to me and may be recorded for snooping, suppressing, and marketing purposes. I don't put these policies in place: various power mad governments are doing it on my behalf and I don't even want it! The best argument for privacy and encryption is the fact that all the leaked NSA slides have TOP SECRET stamped on them.

While reasonable care is made to use TLS in transit, it's best if you also add some encryption within the wrapper.

Why? Because it's nobody else's business, that's why.

Does anybody do this in 2026? No.

S/MIME

I used to be a Thawte Notary. People would seek me out for assurance points! That is no longer a going concern.

For a time after that I used S/MIME certificates. This got a big bump in interest after the Snowden revelations that the United States government was stealing all unencrypted email. Even my parents and I had S/MIME certificates and would email each other privately.

PGP / GnuPG

For many years I maintained a PGP or GnuPG signing key. Very few people used it. Mainly I used it to email people and say, "hey look I also have GnuPG!"

During the Clinton administration there were concerns about the government searching our email for keywords. Noawadays nobody cares, so neither do I!

And to think I used to do identity verifications for the PGP Web Of Trust.

Other Ways to Contact Me

Pretty much the best way to ensure I will receive your message is to ring me and verify that indeed you are speaking to me and then deliver your message.

Yes, your call may be the No. 1 Most Important thing right now, but please be aware that by law or sleep I may not always be able to answer your phone call (for example, should I be driving).

Here are some ways you could contact me:

Telephone: Signal or iMessage. If you're really stuck, WhatsApp (my earlier reservations about WhatsApp are now only privacy related).

Email: ki mi hia -at- gmail

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Other less useful ways to contact me:

Linked In: Stephen D. Cope on Linked In (deactivated)

Skype: (discontinued)

Facebook: web2.0user (unused)

Twitter: @futuresprog (abandoned)

Keybase.io: tipene (abandoned)

Nintendo Wii: (discontinued)

ICQ: (not actively used)

EA Origin: (discontinued?)

Also on Steam, Sony PSN, and even that ridiculous Xbox gamertag nonsense too.