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Elite Fitness Stealth Messaging -- Free Secure Encrypted Web-Based Email
Elite Fitness has partnered with Hush communications, creators of hushmail.com
to offer our subscribers secure encrypted email running through a JAVA applet.
The email system is very similar to hotmail, Yahoo mail, or hushmail except
you get a cool email address like [email protected]. To anyone other
than the sender or the recipient of an Elite or Hush email, the message
appears as a jumble of numbers and letters. It is completely illegible. The
beauty of Elite Fitness Stealth Messaging is that its security cannot be
broken or weakened by your boss, the government or anyone else. With the email
paging option set, you can receive an email notification at any of your other
email addresses whenever you receive Elite Fitness Email. Get your free
account at: http://www.elitefitness.com/mail

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Yours in sport,

George

George Spellwin
Research Director

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so if Jane logs on to her hushmail account, nobody else can read her inbox and the like, and nobody can see what is being sent back and forth from her computer to the hushmail computer.
if Jane e-mails a message to Joe and he has a hushmail (or ef) account, then it stays secure, it is still on the system and nobody can ever see it - except each other.
BUT - this is where people seem to get retarded and don't understand it -- hushmail or EF are absolutely worthless if Jane then sends an e-mail to Larry who has a yahoo account. the e-mail is sent unencrypted and anyone can read it.

so if you are discussing something of a sensative nature - sending e-mail is like discussing things via postal mail on post cards, it is very easy to sniff and read - it is wide open.
the reason hushmail is nice is that if both of the people are using hushmail (or subsystem acocunts like EF), then it is totally secure.

pisses me off when I send someone a message with hushmail or elitefitness asking them to get an account so that we can have a secure conversation and then they don't b/c they claim it is secure....
I want to kill idiots, but there are far too many of them