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Remember when Hushmail backdoored their client-side applet to capture unencrypted emails and passwords?



It appears they were actually just hosting a web app and users were sending their decryption password to Hushmail. I don't see a reference to backdooring the Java client, though obviously since they delivered it, they could do that too. https://www.wired.com/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/


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