Italian ISP Hides Data Acquisition by Police

jaromil writes "It happened recently in Italy: the provider Aruba lied to a customer calling "power loss" a police action to acquire all data contained in the harddisks of the AUT/INV collective, keeping it secret for a whole year, while more than 30.000 people used its encrypted services for private comunications."

Comments

Re:What can be done to prevent this?

[GigsVT]

The point of encrypted email is you don't have to trust your ISP, or anyone, except the intended recipient.

If you are trusting some upstream service to do the encryption it sorta defeats the purpose, as this example points out.

Are there US compnies or laws that will make me more secure?

No one can make you secure, except yourself.

Re:Summary is fine

[marcello_dl]

I am still trying to figure out waht this means: Aruba lied to a customer calling "power loss"

It appears the police raid was made and no one bothered to tell the responsible for the servers that an investigation/seizing of data was being made.

Disruption of service occurred, and the phone calls by costumers were answered with technical excuses, instead of telling the truth.

This is what italian webpress says.

Note also that 30000 accounts, personal data, crypto keys, was seized because one single hosted site was under investigation.