Cryptome.org on How Much Your Email Is Worth

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This week we bring you the interview with the founder and coordinator of Cryptome.org, John Young.

Cryptome has captured our attention as it, similarly to WikiLeaks, its mission of releasing information and documents generally kept secret recently unveiled the shocking information on just how the business of selling your Yahoo.com or Hotmail email account content by said companies, works.

Apparently, it is relatively simple – anyone from any law-enforcement agency, no matter what capacity, can contact a telecommunications provider and acquire a clear history of your IM chats, contents of your email box, or pretty much any other information collected while you’re innocently browsing the nets.

Yes, even a janitor, with a neatly submitted request on letterhead of a local law enforcement agency can purchase said information. But does this apply to ANY law enforcement in the world? Do Afghanistan police have the ability to check on Joe Schmoe’s for San Francisco communications?

Tune in to find out, and do send us your questions! And do not forget to check out Cryptome.org for yourself, and send them some donations for their excellent work too :)
Cryptome.org on How Much Your Email Is Worth

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  • grahamp

    this has been more than educational. the public NEEDS to know. why is it that our media doesn’t cover more of this absolute blatant invasion of privacy? thank you for doing this story.

  • guerillagirl

    enlightning stuff that made me think twice about privacy issues. Thanks guys!

  • mashka

    super creepy and very informative – thank you soooo much! great show as usual.

  • cookiecutter

    amazing interview. i had no idea that my hotmail account is so compromised. i guess nothing comes free after all. but i don’t quite understand the spy thing – he says that government knows who the spies are and so do the other spies…then where does all this secret nonsense comes from? and why the Valery Plame thing busted all media doors???? i guees, we know little and this interview shows just how little it truly is.

  • ninjagirl

    OK. this is creepy, agreed. but isn’t the fact that it took so long for us to find this out EVEN CREEPIER????