Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds
| November 8, 2007 |  View for printing |
Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying 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."
But it turns out that statement seems not to apply to individuals targeted by government agencies that are able to convince a Canadian court to serve a court order on the company.
By Ryan Singel
Full Story: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200 ... -e-mai.html
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