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On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 06:54:28PM +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > What exactly, was lavabit's service offering, anyway? > > If you're going to interact with the normal SMTP email system ... you can encrypt attachments and so forth ... but a lot of information is leaked in the unprotected fields, like to/from/subject/etc. > > But that's impossible to change. So what exactly did they offer? A communication service that's completely different from email? With perhaps, an email notification interface, that notifies you to login via https to receive your message? > > That's all I can think of. Here's an article about it: http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-lavabit-edward-snowdens-email-2013-7 > And it wasn't just lavabit. There was another company shut down too. Silent Circle shut down their email offering; their secure IM and other services are still a going concern. Phil Zimmerman is involved with running that, I believe. -dsr-
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