Hushmail To Warn Users of Law Enforcement Backdoor

[confuzed_guy2000]

Hushmail To Warn Users of Law Enforcement Backdoor
By Ryan Singel EmailNovember 19, 2007 | 2:08:23 PMCategories: Crime, Hacks and Cracks, Privacy

Hushmail, the web's leading provider of encrypted web mail, updated its explanation of its security model, confirming a THREAT LEVEL report that the company can and will eavesdrop on its users when presented with a court order, even if the targets uses the company's vaunted Java applet that does all the encryption and decryption in a browser.

As THREAT LEVEL reported earlier this month, Hushmail provided 12 CDs of emails in June to U.S. officials targeting steriod manufacturers. But Hushmail promises users that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer."

COMPLETE STORY:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/hushmail-to-war.html

 

[Neanderthal]

use pgp

to encrypt then cut and paste to hushmail encryption.

 

[ALLEX]

Vote for Ron Paul and this will be a thing of the past.

 

[Prometheus615]

email

what is the best email to use these days?

 

[overman]

just curious

"Not even our Hushmail employees can read emails..." Does this mean LE has the ability to decrypt already encrypted messages? Or do they merely have the sender's and recipient's names, etc and not the email's content?


overman

 

[Kane]

"Not even our Hushmail employees can read emails..." Does this mean LE has the ability to decrypt already encrypted messages? Or do they merely have the sender's and recipient's names, etc and not the email's content?


overman

According to some of the indictments from ORD, LE read the contents of many emails.

 

[Dave_19]

Vote for Ron Paul and this will be a thing of the past.

How so, what is he trying to do?