Quote from: Tessellated on January 15, 2013, 08:34 amOne of the reasons the Farmer's Market was busted was because they did not encrypt communication. Technically speaking, that is not correct. The people who ran The Farmers' Market used Hushmail, which had been compromised by the authorities since at least 2007, when the DEA's Operation Raw Deal (ORD) went down. Hushmail's implementation of PGP was (and is) broken by design -- anyone with a decent general understanding of how public key cryptography works could figure this out. These flaws have been discussed at length for the last 10-12 years. I'm frankly astonished that anyone would place any faith in Hushmail at all. The sad part of The Farmers' Market saga is that there apparently were people who tried to warn the owners/operators that what they were doing was unsafe, yet they chose to ignore that advice. They are now paying in spades for their ignorance and arrogance. Quote from: Tessellated on January 15, 2013, 08:34 amSeriously, we have encryption that cannot be broken by the law enforcement of the world. Use it, stay out of jail.I cannot fathom that about half of the addresses are sent to me in the plain.Fortunately for law enforcement, laziness and ignorance are no less prevalent in the criminal population than in the population at large. When Phil Zimmermann originally released PGP, the heads of law enforcement agencies in Canada, the U.S., and the United Kingdom literally lost their minds. They were all absolutely convinced that widespread adoption of strong cryptography would stop criminal investigations dead in their tracks. (They were right -- if crypto _had_ been widely adopted, it would have stopped investigations dead in their tracks.) However, they needn't have worried. Many of the criminal element, who could have benefited from this, were too lazy or ignorant to learn, just as the rest of the general public. Nightcrawler <Nightcrawler@SR>PGP-Key: 4096R/BBF7433B 2012-09-22Key fingerprint = D870 C6AC CC6E 46B0 E0C7 3955 B8F1 D88E BBF7 433BPGP Key: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=174.msg633090#msg633090