HushMail strongly suggested that when given a court order and the targeted user was using the client-side Java applet, that Hushmail sent a backdoored applet. That technically could be detecting by checking hashes, but in practice...
It's an open question whether companies can be forced to build backdoor, but that sure looks like what happened to Hushmail and Lavabits.
(just noting that I'm the author of this more than 5 year old story).
Thanks for pointing that out. I was relying on a source that said otherwise, so for the future I will not trust it as much.
> can be forced to build backdoor,
It seems like they have the option of shutting down as an alternative to implementing a backdoor and lying to their customers about the level of security. If you know of examples of business forced to stay open and the owners forced to continue to work at a company for the purpose of government investigation I would be interested in learning more.
HushMail strongly suggested that when given a court order and the targeted user was using the client-side Java applet, that Hushmail sent a backdoored applet. That technically could be detecting by checking hashes, but in practice...
It's an open question whether companies can be forced to build backdoor, but that sure looks like what happened to Hushmail and Lavabits.
(just noting that I'm the author of this more than 5 year old story).