Recent content by Fidel_Castro

It's NO rumour -- it's true, and there is documentation to back it up. No less than three times has it been documented that government and/or law enforcement compelled Hushmail to give up information on its users: * The Drug Enforcement Administration's "Operation Raw Deal" where Hushmail...

Great advice. Love it!

Many cyber cafes now have security cameras. Some in Europe (especially Italy) require identification (e.g. passport copy) before you can use their machines -- all allegedly in the name of 'fighting terrorism.' Good idea, if the library's computers are not too locked-down. You also don't know...

Anonymousspeech is in Japan. Since August 2003, Japan has a Mutual Law Enforcment Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with the United States. Remember, it was through MLAT, that the DEA forced Hushmail to cooperate on rolling-over on its users. Furthermore, Anonymousspeech generates and stores PGP crypto...

You may have already made your decision, but the fact that Zonealarm's Datalock has a password and data recovery service does NOT bode well. Personally, I'd stick with TrueCrypt. Fidel

Hushmail To Warn Users of Law Enforcement Backdoor By Ryan Singel November 19, 2007 2:08:23 PM Categories: Crime, Hacks and Cracks, Privacy http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/hushmail-to-war.html#previouspost Hushmail, the web's leading provider of encrypted web mail, updated its...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/05/25/bc-mothers.html Nearly three dozen new mothers-to-be have been sent from B.C. to Alberta or Washington state so far this year by the Provincial Health Services Authority because of a shortage of beds in B.C. hospitals. A spokesman for...

To the best of my knowledge, they still use java. Ostensibly, your passphrase is never transmitted outside of your machine, as long as the encryption/decryption is done using their Hush Encryption Engine, which runs as a java applet in one's browser. I suppose the only way to know for sure is...

If I am not mistaken, both Hush and Cyber-Rights use the same backend technology. The key phrase here is, "between Hush users". Both Cyber-Rights and Hushmail suffer from the same deficiency: namely that they both violate one of the chief tenets of public key cryptosystems. The entire idea...

With all due respect, what else did you expect her to say? The NSA is a notoriously closed organization; only a short two decades ago, the government didn't even acknowledge its existence, and employees were told to say only that they "work for the government." If pressed, they were...

I'll have to check this one out and report back. Let me put it this way. Maybe they can read PGP-encrypted traffic, maybe not. If they are able to, this would be of tremendous importance. They're not going to throw that advantage away; I mean they're not going to let the secret out that they...

The problem here is that people are confusing anonymity and privacy; they are two very different things. Hushmail provides privacy, but does not provide anonymity. If one is engaged in potentially illegal activities, it is necessary to be *both* anonymous and private. PGP, as the name...