Government Spies Are Forcing Privacy Email Services To Shut Down Because They Can’t Spy On Emails

Thursday, December 12, 2013
By Paul Martin

PrivateSky developers speak out after being issued national security warrant

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
December 12, 2013

GCHQ, the British counterpart and facilitator to the NSA, has forced a privacy focused email service to shut down because it could not effectively spy on the encrypted emails people were sending.

As the blog IT Security Guru reports, a beta version of the PrivateSky service from London-based web security firm CertiVox was shut down early in 2013 following a government order.

The secure email encryption service, which worked with both web based email and Outlook, had “tens of thousands of heavily active users” before it was targeted by government spooks, according to the developers.

Brian Spector, CEO of CertiVox, tells reporters “Towards the end of 2012, we heard from the National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC), a division of GCHQ and a liaison with the Home Office, [that] they wanted the keys to decrypt the customer data.”

“So they had persons of interest they wanted to track and came with a RIPA warrant signed by the home secretary. You have to comply with a RIPA warrant or you go to jail.” Spector adds.

“It is the same in the USA with FISMA, and it is essentially a national security warrant.” Spector further notes.

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