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Snowden Using Lavabit for Email

by tippytop on 7/13/13, 5:09 AM with 6 comments

• by Dystopian on 7/13/13, 7:05 PM

  I've had a 4 char account for years - never did it because they were inherently secure though.

  They're an American company with an American hosting provider. Only pro accounts use the encrypted email feature set.

  Here's Lavabit's whitepaper on their process - pretty standard setup: http://lavabit.com/secure.html

• by mieses on 7/13/13, 6:45 AM

  Couldn't the NSA easily tap this server? The email is only encrypted at rest. The datacenter is in Dallas, TX.

• by stugs on 7/13/13, 3:15 PM

  About time to update that VMWare install - http://status.lavabit.com/export/graphs/graph_401_4.png

• by joejohnson on 7/13/13, 5:39 AM

  Does anyone know if you can use Lavabit with your own domain?

• by mariuolo on 7/13/13, 9:27 AM

  Nice, this will ruin it for the rest of us all:(