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> The creator of an ultra-secure email service once said to be used by Edward Snowden [...] By the way, for those that don't recognize the name, the "ultra-sec
by FiloSottile 12y ago
> The creator of an ultra-secure email service once said to be used by Edward Snowden [...]
By the way, for those that don't recognize the name, the "ultra-secure" email service is Lavabit, that was secure only by pinky-swear (that is, they just promised to encrypt the emails they were seeing).
- michaelmior 12y ago> Ladar Levison, creator of the Lavabit encrypted email provider...
- garrettgrimsley 12y ago>But rather than compromise the privacy of his other 400,000-plus email users, Levison says, he shut the entire project down. Shouldn't that read "he shut the entire project down, and then handed over the records of 400,000-plus email users?"
- Havvy 12y agoNo, he deleted the records his users had.
- garrettgrimsley 12y agoCitation? I know that deleting records and handing over the encryption keys are not mutually exclusive, but this is the first I'm hearing about destruction of data that the government requested.