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I applaud Ladar for making the right choice on this one. On one hand, there's a lot of skepticism about an email service whose security breaks as soon as the pr
by primitivesuave 12y ago
I applaud Ladar for making the right choice on this one. On one hand, there's a lot of skepticism about an email service whose security breaks as soon as the private keys are stolen. On the other hand, assuming Ladar is a smart individual who knows how to securely store the keys (he is), he couldn't possibly have foreseen that the government would embroil him in a cat-and-mouse game.
- akerl_ 12y agoStoring the private keys that decrypt the emails you're telling your users cannot be decrypted doesn't seem very secure. The whole sales pitch Lavabit used was provably false, and for him to not foresee private key compromise on his servers would be remarkably shortsighted.
- gknoy 12y agoImagine what we'd have said if the keys had been compromised with Heartbleed.
- floody-berry 12y agoHe probably would've been called dishonest and accused of peddling snake oil. That whole conversation was, fortunately for him, buried under the "government is going crazy with power!!" story; he's a nerd hero who is sticking it to the man instead of just another crypto shyster.
- DanBC 12y ago> he couldn't possibly have foreseen that the government would embroil him in a cat-and-mouse game. Don't market it as a secure system then. Sell it as something that gives moderate privacy to people who are not accused of breaking laws. The public needs better understanding of risk assessment and people selling insecure products as super secure does not help anyone.