Should I be concerned about "hush mail"

[Crockershite]

I've found an email address on dh phone.
Can't log in as password can't be recovered. I'm going to try and guess, but it's unlikely I think.
I know I could ask him but

[Crockershite]

Sent too soon, sorry.
What is it anyway?

[PulpsNotFiction]

Hush is a very naice online retailer.

Maybe he got your Xmas pressies from there?

[Sprink]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail

[Crockershite]

Thanks pulp
I very much doubt it, he can never keep gifts a secret!
Hushmail.com Is what I found. I will google again.

[MillionToOneChances]

Hushmail is a private, paid for email service. I'd be a bit about secret email addresses in general and paid-for secret email addresses in particular.

[isittheweekendyet]

I think you mean hushmail? It's a private email account which gives ad-free email accounts with unlimited aliases for an annual fee.

[TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge]

There are two possible things.

1. Hush is a clothing store that lots of mumsnetters on S&B love.So he may have got you a nice pressie from there
   

1. Hush is also the name of a nice restaurant/eaterie in Mayfair (I think that's where it is) and he may be taking you for a nice meal?
   

Don't panic!

[Crockershite]

Thank sprink.
I did Google first, I was wondering about people's experience of it, hoping I need not be worried and not have to face asking him.

[TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge]

Ooh,I didn't know there was a private paid for email service

[isittheweekendyet]

Hushmail.com is definitely not a shop or a restaurant. I too would want to know why my dh needed this account.

[MillionToOneChances]

Not necessarily paid for: www.hushmail.com/services/hushmail/

[Crockershite]

Millions , yes it's an email, hush mail.com...... Saved under " nobody!"

[26Point2Miles]

Sounds a bit suspicious to me... Does he have problems with his regular email?

[Charlullaby]

I signed up to hushmail before, you have to keep logging in each week otherwise the account gets frozen.

[Crockershite]

Thanks Char

[PulpsNotFiction]

Oops sorry, didn't realise it was an email provider. Hope you get to the bottom of it.

[MillionToOneChances]

Nobody? Hmm. Incoming, then?

[BippityBoppity]

I had one so I could keep signing up for free trials that were linked to my email address. Could be something like that?

[Crockershite]

No idea bip
Things are difficult atm I wouldn't put something secret past him, but it's Christmas I don't want to stir up trouble for the dc.

[raltheraffe]

I have a hushmail account and keep files on mega.co.nz as they are kept in an encrypted format. My emails and files are actually quite boring and certainly not a security issue. However it annoys me that emails in my gmail account are read by some Government algorithm to see if I am a threat to anyone.
I also use Tor browser.
I am not paranoid, I have done nothing wrong so I have nothing to fear. It is the same principle as I would be pissed off if the postie opened my letters and read them. Just pisses me off people snooping through my stuff.

[SparkleZilla]

"However it annoys me that emails in my gmail account are read by some Government algorithm to see if I am a threat to anyone" I dont give a flying fig if an algorythm looks at my mail - make no difference to me

[raltheraffe]

Just annoys me. I do not have anything to hide but do not like the idea a big computer somewhere analyses my emails like that. It is none of their bloody business.

[Number3cometome]

Question - Why were you looking through his phone?

Surely that is the issue here.

[Crockershite]

Number
No issues he sync'ed both iPhones together by mistake, it's taken me ages to sort, I found it when deleting his info.!

[Number3cometome]

Apologies - I read the first sentence I've found an email address on dh phone and assumed you had a snoop [embarrassed]

I'd ask him straight up - see if he squirms.

Might be totally innocent, but no harm in asking.