Hmmm....
and out of the 100+ lavabit clone services, how many will be operated by the NSA? (undercover, obviously)
Ladar Levison, the former operator of the Lavabit secure email service that was once used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, has launched a Kickstarter project to raise funds to release the site's code as an open source project. Levison shut down Lavabit in August, and while court orders forbid him from discussing details of the …
Why isn't it encrypted before that? Or is this an additional encryption of everything, headers etc as well?
Also, if it's encrypted at the mail daemon, where are the certs stored to do encrypt/decrypt? Presumably not on the server the daemon is on?
Someone please explain, I feel like I know enough to ask questions, but not enough to know if they're stupid ones :)
Terrorists? Paedophiles?
The problem isn't government email snooping with the sole objective of catching those guys, I'm in favour of that. You're not? Why not?
The problem is with inappropriate snooping of unlimited scope. I doubt that Angela Merkel presents a terrorism/paedo risk. On the other hand if NSA can snoop her then she should be even more concerned that a (more) hostile power could be doing so too.
Op-ed: Lavabit’s primary security claim wasn’t actually true
This actually wasn't a very secure system. I'll take a pass on Lavabit's bits.