hushmail

[B-Irons]

Ok...my hushmail account was deactivated. Anyone know of another good email source other than the obvious? Cheers

 

[lulcat]

Ok...my hushmail account was deactivated. Anyone know of another good email source other than the obvious? Cheers

Hushmail, SilentCircle, Lavabit have all been compromised. Safe-mail.net is owned by an Israeli company, IIRC, and has ties to the Israeli government. I think your best bet is to use code words or PGP encryption with whatever provider you go with.

 

[B-Irons]

Thanks....I seem to be having all the luck lately. $$ taken on orders, and now this...WTF is next, Govt. Shut down:drooling:

 

[Millard]

Hushmail, SilentCircle, Lavabit have all been compromised. Safe-mail.net is owned by an Israeli company, IIRC, and has ties to the Israeli government. I think your best bet is to use code words or PGP encryption with whatever provider you go with.

I encourage everyone to follow the Lavabit case for insight into the tactics used by the government to gain access to individuals private emails. The Lavabit founder claims that feds pressured him to provide more even more information than was legally mandated by a court order. He shut down the service instead of complying.

Meet Lavabit's founder: An American hero hiding in plain sight | Cringely - InfoWorld

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/u...usses-pressure-from-fbi-to-disclose-data.html

How Lavabit Melted Down : The New Yorker

Lavabit founder, under gag order, speaks out about shutdown decision | Ars Technica

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/a-conversation-with-lavabits-founder/

 

[lulcat]

Millard, he chose to shut down rather than cooperate with the Feds, AND they are now trying to bring a case against him for shutting down his PRIVATELY owned business. Ridiculous.

 

[Millard]

Millard, he chose to shut down rather than cooperate with the Feds, AND they are now trying to bring a case against him for shutting down his PRIVATELY owned business. Ridiculous.

He cooperated with the feds to some degree. But shut down when the feds wanted even greater access to accounts e.g. collection of "content" and "passwords", etc.

Lavabit founder offered to log users' metadata if FBI paid him $3,500 | Technology | theguardian.com

In his 28 June meeting with the FBI, where he was served with the trap and trace order, he said he was told that “they would be collecting content and passwords, which really caused a lot of friction with me. If they had been more honest and said that at that point they were only trying to collect metadata, the situation may have developed differently.

“It was a textbook example of the FBI lying to me in order to get more information, and it ended up backfiring… I think they really wanted that information, I just know, retroactively, that they didn’t have authorisation from the court to collect it.”

It took two weeks for Levison to get a lawyer on the case. “It turns out that if you read the pen trap and trace order, not only does it not provide the authority to demand my SSL certificate, which they claimed, but it also doesn’t provide them the authority to collect content or passwords.

“If they had been more honest about that, I would have provided the code to log that for them early on.”

 

[lulcat]

Speaking of security certificates, but there is evidence that the US government forced certificate manufacturers to incorporate back-doors specifically that the US could exploit.

The NSA's Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Encryption - ProPublica

 

[B-Irons]

I received and email before my Hushmail was shut down asking me to cooperate in a police investigation against Veyron, funny, but not really![}]