I never read the closing letter and it is quite unnerving.<p>"If my experience serves any purpose, it is to illustrate what most already know: our courts must not be allowed to consider matters of great importance in secret, lest we find ourselves summarily deprived of meaningful due process. If we allow our government to continue operating in secret, it is only a matter of time before you or a loved one find yourself in a position like I was – standing in a secret courtroom, alone, and without any of the unalienable rights that are supposed to protect us from an abuse of the state’s authority."
A number of comments in this thread appear to suggest that Lavabit was end-to-end encrypted. It was not.<p><a href="https://moxie.org/blog/lavabit-critique/" rel="nofollow">https://moxie.org/blog/lavabit-critique/</a>
Curious: what would happen if a bunch of these popped up all over the place and used end to end encryption between each other making email truly secure between each other? Would such a thing be possible? Adopt Mega's model where they store the private key, but encrypt it with the user's password and only the browser has the decrypted copy.
so what happens if you run this on Amazon (or any other cloud provider that would cooperate with govt intrusion)? do you need your own servers to make it work as intended?
Fun. Don't believe that an open source version of Magma makes it more secure. It just means this version you see is one that looks like the one used on a server. What is actually on the server may not be the version you see in a public repository. Thanks for sharing Magma!
can anyone speak to the value of the DIME spec?<p><a href="https://darkmail.info/downloads/dark-internet-mail-environment-march-2015.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://darkmail.info/downloads/dark-internet-mail-environme...</a>
So Ladar Levinson closed his company because he refused to provide a backdoor to his customers email encryption ?<p>This seems similar to the Apple case, was Tim Cook just too big to bully ?<p>Snowden had his own encryption or used GPG so a Lavabit backdoor encryption key would not lower the entropy of Snowden's encryted emails.<p>Was Levinson's gag order lifted ? Why did Lavabit have to close but Apple didn't ?<p>[EDIT] Levison was not jailed.