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Prism Hushmail
On 3-06 –2011 I allready posted about hushmail http://juicedmuscle.com/archive/index.php/t-1726.html
By the way, hushmail’s interface is absolute crap. Why would you want to use it? You cannot mark an e-mail in any way. You cannot see what e-mails you have already replied to. They format their e-mails probably intentionally to fuck up PGP encrypted e-mails that are encrypted with private keys they do not have access to. It seems to me that the purpose is just to frustrate real attempts at privacy.
OTHER PROBLEMS
How about this little problem, that is Canada-wide?
http://www.privsecblog.com/archives/...urt-order.html
And let’s not forget the allegations that NSA/US Government agencies have real-time access to Hushmail servers to do whatever they please.
And what of this other documented case of hushmail’s betrayal of privacy?
To communicate covertly with the Sun reporter, Drake opened up a Hushmail account and she apparently did the same. Hushmail is a web service that, as it advertises itself, looks and feels just like any other web-mail site, but adds strong encryption to your emails to protect your secrets from prying eyes?
Yet when the prying eyes are federal investigators, it turns out that Hushmail is not quite so secure. The indictment of Drake makes plain that the feds pierced Hushmail?s encryption either via technological or legal means, noting, among other things, that defendant DRAKE scanned and emailed Reporter A electronic copies of certain classified and unclassified documents.?
THE SOLUTION
The solution is to ditch hushmail on principle alone because their crimes against privacy, their betrayal of civilization, total hypocrisy and borderline false advertising are absolutely reprehensible and, ultimately, intolerable.
I seriously hesitate to recommend other free-of-cost webmail non-solutions that also have major problems, but in the spirit of hoping hushmail dies the death of a thousand cuts, here are some other free webmail services you can use instead.
https://www.safe-mail.net (Israel)
https://ssl.mailvault.com (Germany)
https://fastmail.fm (Australia?)
https://lavabit.com (USA)
https://anonymousspeech.com (Switzerland / Malaysia)
http://www.bigstring.com (USA?)
http://www.offshorewebmail.com (USA?)
http://www.countermail.com (Sweden) ? I put this last because they require java, which is a MAJOR security risk.
I want to be clear. These are not a real solutions. They suffer from most of the same problems as hushmail, but as someone comfortingly put it, they don?t have the track record of treachery that Hushmail does. Given time they might degrade into utter shit just as hushmail has, so don?t let that lull you into a false sense of security like Hushmail had you mesmerized into for years. It is well past time to throw off hushmail. Do it for your own sake.
Now in 2013 we know
The UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of three top intelligence agencies in the country, has been able to view private internet user data since 2010 under the US National Security Agency's (NSA) PRISM program, which allegedly taps into the servers of tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, WhatsApp and Yahoo. Stop using USA services like Fed-EX to sent your packages. Stop using GOOGLE Chrome etc etc
Prism the top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet. The files shed light on one of Snowden's most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by the Guardianon June 10. "I, sitting at my desk," said Snowden, could "wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email". Training materials for XKeyscore detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases by filling in a simple on-screen form giving only a broad justification for the search. The request is not reviewed by a court or any NSA personnel before it is processed. One presentation claims the program covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet", including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata. Analysts can also use XKeyscore and other NSA systems to obtain ongoing "real-time" interception of an individual's internet activity. XKeyscore provides the technological capability [to target] US persons for extensive electronic surveillance without a warrant provided that some identifying information, such as their email or IP address, is known to the analyst.
It also gatheres your Flight information etc
The UK is tapping fibre-optic cables that carry global communications and gathering vast amounts of data, the Guardian has reported.The information from internet and phone use was stored for up to 30 days to be sifted and analysed,
Documents said to have been leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden apparently show that a number of telecoms companies such as Vodafone and British Telecom allowed GCHQ access to undersea cables which carry their phone and internet traffic, allowing them to see details of customers' phone calls and email conversations.
The downfall of all these current events is that UK border is closed for API’s from what I hear from sources is that this idiotic action called “the war on drugs” causes a full control of packages from certain countries comparable with the “Pegasus” controls that happen only for a few days for the last 6 years. The UK is just a slave of the USA.
On 3-06 –2011 I allready posted about hushmail http://juicedmuscle.com/archive/index.php/t-1726.html
By the way, hushmail’s interface is absolute crap. Why would you want to use it? You cannot mark an e-mail in any way. You cannot see what e-mails you have already replied to. They format their e-mails probably intentionally to fuck up PGP encrypted e-mails that are encrypted with private keys they do not have access to. It seems to me that the purpose is just to frustrate real attempts at privacy.
OTHER PROBLEMS
How about this little problem, that is Canada-wide?
http://www.privsecblog.com/archives/...urt-order.html
And let’s not forget the allegations that NSA/US Government agencies have real-time access to Hushmail servers to do whatever they please.
And what of this other documented case of hushmail’s betrayal of privacy?
To communicate covertly with the Sun reporter, Drake opened up a Hushmail account and she apparently did the same. Hushmail is a web service that, as it advertises itself, looks and feels just like any other web-mail site, but adds strong encryption to your emails to protect your secrets from prying eyes?
Yet when the prying eyes are federal investigators, it turns out that Hushmail is not quite so secure. The indictment of Drake makes plain that the feds pierced Hushmail?s encryption either via technological or legal means, noting, among other things, that defendant DRAKE scanned and emailed Reporter A electronic copies of certain classified and unclassified documents.?
THE SOLUTION
The solution is to ditch hushmail on principle alone because their crimes against privacy, their betrayal of civilization, total hypocrisy and borderline false advertising are absolutely reprehensible and, ultimately, intolerable.
I seriously hesitate to recommend other free-of-cost webmail non-solutions that also have major problems, but in the spirit of hoping hushmail dies the death of a thousand cuts, here are some other free webmail services you can use instead.
https://www.safe-mail.net (Israel)
https://ssl.mailvault.com (Germany)
https://fastmail.fm (Australia?)
https://lavabit.com (USA)
https://anonymousspeech.com (Switzerland / Malaysia)
http://www.bigstring.com (USA?)
http://www.offshorewebmail.com (USA?)
http://www.countermail.com (Sweden) ? I put this last because they require java, which is a MAJOR security risk.
I want to be clear. These are not a real solutions. They suffer from most of the same problems as hushmail, but as someone comfortingly put it, they don?t have the track record of treachery that Hushmail does. Given time they might degrade into utter shit just as hushmail has, so don?t let that lull you into a false sense of security like Hushmail had you mesmerized into for years. It is well past time to throw off hushmail. Do it for your own sake.
Now in 2013 we know
The UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of three top intelligence agencies in the country, has been able to view private internet user data since 2010 under the US National Security Agency's (NSA) PRISM program, which allegedly taps into the servers of tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, WhatsApp and Yahoo. Stop using USA services like Fed-EX to sent your packages. Stop using GOOGLE Chrome etc etc
Prism the top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet. The files shed light on one of Snowden's most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by the Guardianon June 10. "I, sitting at my desk," said Snowden, could "wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email". Training materials for XKeyscore detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases by filling in a simple on-screen form giving only a broad justification for the search. The request is not reviewed by a court or any NSA personnel before it is processed. One presentation claims the program covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet", including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata. Analysts can also use XKeyscore and other NSA systems to obtain ongoing "real-time" interception of an individual's internet activity. XKeyscore provides the technological capability [to target] US persons for extensive electronic surveillance without a warrant provided that some identifying information, such as their email or IP address, is known to the analyst.
It also gatheres your Flight information etc
The UK is tapping fibre-optic cables that carry global communications and gathering vast amounts of data, the Guardian has reported.The information from internet and phone use was stored for up to 30 days to be sifted and analysed,
Documents said to have been leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden apparently show that a number of telecoms companies such as Vodafone and British Telecom allowed GCHQ access to undersea cables which carry their phone and internet traffic, allowing them to see details of customers' phone calls and email conversations.
The downfall of all these current events is that UK border is closed for API’s from what I hear from sources is that this idiotic action called “the war on drugs” causes a full control of packages from certain countries comparable with the “Pegasus” controls that happen only for a few days for the last 6 years. The UK is just a slave of the USA.
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