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I 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

I 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 ago
Yes, precisely