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Should I be concerned about "hush mail"

25 replies

Crockershite · 15/12/2014 13:21

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

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Crockershite · 15/12/2014 13:21

Sent too soon, sorry.
What is it anyway?

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PulpsNotFiction · 15/12/2014 13:24

Hush is a very naice online retailer.

Maybe he got your Xmas pressies from there?

Sprink · 15/12/2014 13:26

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail

Crockershite · 15/12/2014 13:26

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

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MillionToOneChances · 15/12/2014 13:27

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

isittheweekendyet · 15/12/2014 13:27

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 · 15/12/2014 13:28

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 · 15/12/2014 13:29

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.

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TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge · 15/12/2014 13:29

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

isittheweekendyet · 15/12/2014 13:29

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

MillionToOneChances · 15/12/2014 13:30

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

Crockershite · 15/12/2014 13:31

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

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26Point2Miles · 15/12/2014 13:36

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

Charlullaby · 15/12/2014 13:36

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

Crockershite · 15/12/2014 13:42

Thanks Char

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PulpsNotFiction · 15/12/2014 13:44

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

MillionToOneChances · 15/12/2014 13:47

Nobody? Hmm. Incoming, then?

BippityBoppity · 15/12/2014 13:47

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 · 15/12/2014 13:51

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.

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raltheraffe · 15/12/2014 13:57

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 · 15/12/2014 14:25

"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 · 15/12/2014 14:36

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 · 15/12/2014 14:37

Question - Why were you looking through his phone?

Surely that is the issue here.

Crockershite · 15/12/2014 14:53

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.!

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Number3cometome · 15/12/2014 14:56

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.

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