Digital rights advocates up in arms after AT&T subsidiary Cricket and prevented users from encrypting their emails allows them to pass through the Internet in plaintext. According to researchers, the ISP removed encrypting technology STARTTLS, from emails as they passed between servers. "It is important that ISPs immediately stop this unauthorized removal of their customers' security measures," wrote Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, a staffer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a blog post. "ISPs act as trusted gateways to the global Internet, and it is a violation of that trust to intercept or modify client traffic, regardless of what protocol their customers are using."