Signs of the time

Lockbin is a secure messaging system. They just updated their FAQ to respond to persistent user questions about the NSA. Another sign of the time about how U.S. companies are being maligned by NSA spying.

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Will your comply with police demands to turn over my messages? All Lockbin.com data is stored within the United States. As a U.S. company, we are obligated to comply with legal court orders asking for information. If legally demanded, we must supply your encrypted documents and meta data to investigators. Lockbin does not have a back door and so we are unable to supply decryption keys for your documents.

I don't feel comfortable hosting my data in the U.S. Many people have expressed this sentiment to us recently, especially our friends in Europe. We are currently looking for partners in France, Germany, U.K. and Netherlands and other countries who would be willing to work with us to setup and manage locally hosted versions of Lockbin. We will keep you posted as our localization project continues. Should we take on local partners, you will see them announced here; if they are not listed here, they are not genuine.

Has the NSA tapped your servers? Since publication of news that some U.S. companies have provided direct access of their servers to the government, we have fielded questions like this many times. As of this week, no government authority has demanded access to our servers, nor have we been asked to accommodate any government surveillance of Lockbin users. If the time comes when such a demand is made, we would likely be prevented from telling you about it. However, we could not in good conscience continue to publicly maintain this claim, as we are doing right now.