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There's really no coming back for Lavabit. Nobody can trust them anymore, and this isn't just about Lavabit, but about e-mail. If a person is privacy-consciou
by nilved 10y ago
There's really no coming back for Lavabit. Nobody can trust them anymore, and this isn't just about Lavabit, but about e-mail. If a person is privacy-conscious enough not to use Google, they know not to use anyone else either.
- ycmbntrthrwaway 10y agoIt depends on your definition of email. Email has already switched from UUCP to SMTP once, and https://darkmail.info/ https://darkmail.info/ calls what is developed 'Email 3.0'.
- matt4077 10y agoI may have missed something about the original Lavabit affair, but my take-away was always "He's proven to be the rare individual willing to take a significant hit for his principles". If they now added whatever the state-of-the-art is for a service such as this, wouldn't that create quite a compelling service?
- DavideNL 10y ago> "He's proven to be the rare individual willing to take a significant hit for his principles" i agree with that... Although it seems 'incompetence' instead of 'evilness', he still provided a service which was not safe by design: https://moxie.org/blog/lavabit-critique/ https://moxie.org/blog/lavabit-critique/
- nilved 10y ago> If they now added whatever the state-of-the-art is for a service such as this, wouldn't that create quite a compelling service? Right, but that wouldn't be e-mail, and this seems to be e-mail. He made the decision to shut down e-mail accounts (including mine!) to prevent data leakage and that is not a decision that anyone should be forced to make; it is a deficiency of the system.
- Dowwie 10y agoYes, precisely