Riseup to encrypt email in response to FBI warrant

After exhausting our legal options, Riseup recently chose to comply with two sealed warrants from the FBI, rather than facing contempt of court. The first concerned the public contact address for an international DDoS extortion ring. The second concerned an account using ransomware to extort money from people. [...snap...] There was a “gag order” that prevented us from disclosing even the existence of these warrants until now. This was also the reason why we could not update our “Canary”. We have taken action to ensure that Riseup never again has access to a user’s stored email in plaintext. Starting today, all new Riseup email accounts will feature personally encrypted storage on our servers, only accessible by you. In the near future, we will begin to migrate all existing accounts to use this new system. Full article: https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/canary-statement