IP's site now says this right at the top of his page: "be warned Safe-mail.net given DEA universal pas code so we cant email to there , if you dont get response use another email to email ,we can not email to mailvault either "
Guys, public / private key encryption, used by these mail services, does not have a UNIVERSAL key. For each occurance, both the public, and private key are generated upon account creation.
I.e., there is no back door. Now, the DEA may have a warrant, or not have a warrant (under Homeland Security), but, there is no back door. It simply does NOT work that way.
The most secure method is to use PGP (Private Good Privacy) and maintain your own keys.
It's NOT a good idea to pass these messages from, say hushmail.com to safe-mail.net, because they end up in "The Cloud" where they can be ferreted out.
Most 1024 byte encryption takes YEARS to break even with a supercomputer. 128 byte encryption not as long.
Most evidence is obtained via text messages, plain text email, and browsing and proxy logs.
BY LAW: PCS (cell) text messages have to be retained for a MINIMUM of two years by common carrier (eg. VZW, ATT, Sprint).
Proposed BY LAW: Proxy server logs (where you are surfing) would have to be retained up to THREE YEARS. As you can imagine, the carriers do NOT want to be in that spot, and are lobbying against it.
The government wants to be able to do data mining, looking years back into the past.
1984 by Orson Orwell.
Privacy is, for the most part, an illusion.
Unless you're a computer science major, you ARE being watched at some level.
There ARE NOT PCS text messages / PIX / FLIX that don't get saved. That's required by Homeland Security.
But,...there is no backdoor key in public key / private key encryption.
Usually..folks get rolled. It's a simple as that.
And..they squeal like greased pigs.
Write your Congressman.
In the case of Hushmail and SSB, Hush was served a warrant. Since Hush held both the private and public keys, the DEA was able to decode all the messages, from their encrypted form. That's all in the indictment served upon SSB, and a matter of public record. Hushmail was not "broken". Hush, a Canadian firm, with servers abroad, complied with the INTERPOL / DEA request.