GCHQ leads the way, actually.
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Security firm CertiVox has said that it was forced to forced to pull its PrivateSky secure email product after a GCHQ request for its users' data.
Brian Spector, CEO of CertiVox, told IT Security Guru: "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.
It is the same in the USA with FISMA, and it is essentially a national security warrant. So in late 2012 we had the choice to make - either architect the world's most secure encryption system on the planet, so secure that CertiVox cannot see your data, or spend £500,000 building a backdoor into the system to mainline data to GCHQ so they can mainline it over to the NSA.
It was a smattering of businesses and consumers who used it and you don't have any recourse on it or let the subject know that you have been approached to monitor their communications, as that is also against the law."
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".
How terribly enterprising of GCHQ, innit.
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Security firm CertiVox has said that it was forced to forced to pull its PrivateSky secure email product after a GCHQ request for its users' data.
Brian Spector, CEO of CertiVox, told IT Security Guru: "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.
It is the same in the USA with FISMA, and it is essentially a national security warrant. So in late 2012 we had the choice to make - either architect the world's most secure encryption system on the planet, so secure that CertiVox cannot see your data, or spend £500,000 building a backdoor into the system to mainline data to GCHQ so they can mainline it over to the NSA.
It was a smattering of businesses and consumers who used it and you don't have any recourse on it or let the subject know that you have been approached to monitor their communications, as that is also against the law."
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".
How terribly enterprising of GCHQ, innit.
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