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better to delete it than hand it over if privacy was your selling point in the first place. if i were a customer, i'd be ok with this.
by phpnode 13y ago
better to delete it than hand it over if privacy was your selling point in the first place. if i were a customer, i'd be ok with this.
- iaskwhy 13y agoAlso, if I understand this correctly, his customers most probably had a copy of the emails on their computers so their loss was only the email address (and emails eventually received after the closedown).
- digipaper 13y agoIf that's the case it would be fine with me too.
- orblivion 13y agoThey might have lost roughly a day's worth, depends how often they connect via IMAP.
- pdonis 13y agoWhat if they're not using IMAP?
- pdonis 13y agohis customers most probably had a copy of the emails on their computers Based on the fact that a number of them are talking about having lost data, I suspect that at least a significant number of customers only used webmail to access their accounts, so they never had a local copy of their data.
- iaskwhy 13y agoI was thinking that using webmail would defeat the purpose of really private email.
- pdonis 13y agoNot if you access it via https.
- iaskwhy 13y agoIt's still showing not encrypted on the screen which allows all sort of possibilities when done on a browser. For example, let's say you're using Chrome, hard to make sure page contents are not being used somehow.
- pdonis 13y agoThe same applies to any other email client; it has your data unencrypted, so if you can't trust it, you're screwed.
- iaskwhy 13y agoThat's why I assumed people that actually care about privacy use a desktop software, open source and with IMAP, so there wouldn't be no huge loss.
- pdonis 13y agoa desktop software, open source and with IMAP Which will still see your data unencrypted. And there are open-source browsers too. In any case, as I said several posts ago, a number of Lavabit customers were complaining about having lost their stored emails; if they were using a desktop email client with IMAP, that wouldn't be the case.
- zwdr 13y agoI am a customer, and honestly, I'm more than okay with it. It's a real annoyance to me, but its better than having my stuff streamed to the NSA.