Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government

teknopurge writes "Apparently Hushmail has been providing information to law enforcement behind the backs of their clients. Billed as secure email because of their use of PGP, Hushmail has been turning over private keys of users to the authorities on request. 'DEA agents received three CDs which contained decrypted emails for the targets of the investigation that had been decrypted as part of a mutual legal assistance treaty between the United States and Canada. The news will be embarrassing to the company, which has made much of its ability to ensure that emails are not read by the authorities, including the FBI's Carnivore email monitoring software.'"

Comments

right.

[apodyopsis]

you'd be expecting hushmail to turn up on fuckedcompany.com soon...

...if the website was not currently fucked.

Really though, come on. A firm that sells privacy as a feature and then gives it away to anybody who asks is about as crooked as your doctor telling your friends about your medical records on request. I had a hunt for the hushmail T&C to try and see if this was mentioned in any legalese but had no joy locating it.... The Internet being notoriously unforgiving on such matters I would not give too hoots for hushmail's future business regardless of whether they claim they had no choice or not

This is nothing more than another example and ....

[3seas]

....reminder of the typical "make a claim of one thing and do the opposite --- and profit"
Oh so typical of the computer.....