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> Taken together, the closures signal that e-mails, even if they are encrypted, can be accessed by government authorities and that the only way to prevent turni
by jonahx 13y ago
> Taken together, the closures signal that e-mails, even if they are encrypted, can be accessed by government authorities and that the only way to prevent turning over the data is to obliterate the servers that the data sits on.
Can someone explain to me how this is possible? Or is this inaccurate?
- bhitov 13y agoI think it is inaccurate. The concerns of lavabit and silent circle seemed to be about unencrypted email.
- MagicWishMonkey 13y agoTheir concerns are not about unencrypted email, they refuse to install eavesdropping equipment in their server rack. You can encrypt your email all you want but it's not encrypted in the space between your load balancer and your app server.
- bhitov 13y agoI think in general "encrypted email" refers to end-to-end encrypted email which of course does not have that problem.
- Zigurd 13y agoThat's probably inaccurate. It is likely that the problem Lavabit faced was being required to transmit malware to their customers.