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Are there NO alternatives to what Lavabit provided? Even if it required software installation on the client? I have to assume Snowden understood the architectu

by jmathai 12y ago

Are there NO alternatives to what Lavabit provided? Even if it required software installation on the client? I have to assume Snowden understood the architecture of a "secure" webmail provider but still went with it. Better than Gmail I'm sure but far from something to rely on.

tptacek 12y ago
There are lots of alternatives, but none of them involve signing up for a web service and not installing any software. And no, I don't think Lavabit was likely to have been safer than Gmail. Lavabit doesn't have one of the industry's best security teams and largest software security budgets trying to make sure there aren't horrible vulnerabilities in it.