[liberationtech] Secure hosted mail

[Jacob Appelbaum]

On 02/25/2012 09:48 AM, John Graham-Cumming wrote:
> I'd be interested to hear opinions from the list in privacy aware and secure hosted email. 
> 
> Are there opinions about any of the services like Hushmail, Neomailbox, ... Looking to dump gmail. 
> 

Hushmail, a Canadian company, gave up data to the US Government:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/08/hushmail_court_orders/
https://www.scribd.com/doc/460802/Hushmail-backdoor
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/hushmail-to-war/

Note their weasel worded FAQ:
https://help.hushmail.com/entries/245139-is-there-a-cryptographic-back-door

All the best,
Jacob