Novo Ordo
Home of Sub Rosa Secure Email Service
and NoName Free Anonymous Email
There are two aspects to server security and privacy for a VPN service: The first is whether the VPN provider’s server network is secure and cannot be hacked into by criminals trying to sniff data and personal information or get information about the overall network configuration and principal server. This can be independently tested with the permission of the VPN provider. If the permission to test for this security is not granted, we downgrade that VPN provider on that very important issue. (more...)
SAN FRANCISCO — Clashes between the maker of Blackberry smart phones and India, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the latest rounds in a cat-and-mouse game pitting authorities against technologies racing beyond their grasp. (more...)
Research In Motion Ltd. has offered information and tools to help India conduct surveillance of wireless email and messaging services on RIM's popular BlackBerry, say people familiar with the negotiations, illuminating RIM's dealings as it seeks to balance sovereign security concerns with its customers' privacy. (more...)
The University of Ottawa will explore privacy concerns before deciding whether to introduce a new e-mail service for students similar to the Microsoft-powered program Algonquin College is launching this fall. (more...)
Today's Washington Post announces yet another assault on personal privacy being attempted by the Obama Administration. In "White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity," Ellen Nakashima reports: The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. (more...)
These days, it seems Research in Motion just can't win. RIM's launch this week of its BlackBerry Torch smartphone should have been high fives all around. That plus a better browser and new operating system should have had analysts smiling. (more...)
NEW YORK — Research In Motion Ltd. is refusing to back down in the face of mounting pressure from several foreign governments over the way it handles email traffic, disputing claims it has provided security agencies with special technology to decrypt BlackBerry communications. (more...)
The Obama Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, are approaching Congress to get authority to be allowed to search personal, and business communications that occur via the Internet. This action is not just limited to E-mail, but covers ‘other’ communications. If allowed, this will enable the FBI to freely read anyone’s communications without any warrant issued, nor any judicial over-seeing of the actions. (more...)
L: We are talking today with one of Doug Casey's favorite cryptology technologists, a once-shadowy figure named… um… I'm never sure with cypherpunk types. What name can we use? We're on the record here. (more...)
We live in challenging times in which personal privacy concerns and government national security efforts frequently are at odds. Among the latest debates on this front is whether Congress, at the Justice Department’s urging, should modify the part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act that sets the terms through which the FBI can obtain select users’ electronic information from Internet service providers, telephone companies, banks, credit bureaus and other businesses with personal records about individuals. (more...)
WASHINGTON — The White House wants to give the FBI easier access to the Internet activity of suspects without a court order, the Washington Post reported Thursday. (more...)
Apple Inc. said it is trying to fix a Web browser flaw that a security expert says could allow a website operator to learn the names, email addresses and other information of anyone who visits a site, even if the visitor has never volunteered that information online before. (more...)
2009 September 25:
Novo Ordo upgrades its server and moves to a more reliable ISP.
2008 December 06:
Novo Ordo adds an anti-keylogging virtual keyboard for message creation
to our Sub Rosa
Private Email subscription service.
2008 November 02:
Novo Ordo adds an anti-keylogging virtual keyboard for password protection
to our Sub Rosa
Private Email subscription service.
2008 March 30:
The domain ProtectedSpeech.us is now available as an address
for users of our Sub Rosa
Private Email subscription service.
2008 February 17:
Novo Ordo announces Sub Rosa
Private Email, our new secure email subscription service.
2008 January 13:
Novo Ordo announces NoName
Free Anonymous Email, its first product offering.
2008 January 05:
Novo Ordo moves its servers to Panama in preparation
for new product offerings.
2007 November 10:
Novo Ordo begins alpha testing anonymous email service.
2007 October 16:
Novo Ordo goes live!