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Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Gives Feds Copies Of Messages
- noblethrasher 19y ago"However, installing Java and loading and running the Java applet can be annoying" Any reason that they can't use Flash?
- nickb 19y agoMy guess is that Flash doesn't have all of the encryption libraries. They'd have to rewrite all of them in AS...
- noblethrasher 19y agoI was aware of that possibility. Still, implementing a standard encryption algorithm shouldn't be hard.
- dfranke 19y agoI much prefer Java applets over Flash. They're much more open and don't have the 64-bit issues that it looks like Adobe is never going to get around to fixing.
- dfranke 19y agoCan I say I told you so? http://reddit.com/info/uctp/comments/cudwx http://reddit.com/info/uctp/comments/cudwx
- BitGeek 19y agoOk, I see why they did it, now they need to advertise the fact on their home page for everyone to see. Pretty asinine to call yourselves a security company and then just role over like this-- no court fight, no resistance. Further, this also goes to show that any company in a MLAT country is vulnerable to being made to turn over the information you're paying them to keep private. and of course, given the way the US is going they will always have an excuse for getting this info- drugs, terrorism, pedophilia., but as we have seen in the past these excuses are a veneer that wears thin and it becomes outright spying. Hushmail is now compromised- and they didn't even resist. Any further breaches won't even be newsworthy, and the feds know they will role over... so any time a hushmail.com adddress comes up in an investigation, they'll just demand the info.
- imsteve 19y agoAssholes.