Re: [LINK] GCHQ Forced Secure Email Service PrivateSky to Shut Down

2013-12-15 Thread Glen Turner
On 14/12/2013, at 9:19 AM, Karl Auer wrote: On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 09:16 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/529392/20131211/gchq-forced-privatesky-secure-email-service-offline.htm We are business people but we believe in privacy, internet freedom and responsible

Re: [LINK] GCHQ Forced Secure Email Service PrivateSky to Shut Down

2013-12-15 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 16:18 +1030, Glen Turner wrote: On 14/12/2013, at 9:19 AM, Karl Auer wrote: entity. If there were a distributed mechanism in place (think Tor), these problems would go away. I don't know what that mechanism is - but it's the answer :-) The problem with distributed

Re: [LINK] GCHQ Forced Secure Email Service PrivateSky to Shut Down

2013-12-15 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 07:24 +, step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: As much as I hope you are right Karl ... here's a map showing that by 2012 the NSA has placed 50,000 High-Speed Optical Cable access points worldwide It's not about physical access (well, not ALL about physical access). It's about

[LINK] GCHQ Forced Secure Email Service PrivateSky to Shut Down

2013-12-13 Thread Kim Holburn
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/529392/20131211/gchq-forced-privatesky-secure-email-service-offline.htm PrivateSky was shut down at the beginning of the year after introducing a web-based version in beta and for Outlook and had tens of thousands of heavily active users. Brian Spector,