Hm, feels a bit weird. If they already got served with an order to share the data and they refused to comply, closing down the service instead, what can have changed today? Wouldn't this mean that someone else took up the service, agreed to the order and now this will become some sort of honeypot?<p>Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I don't understand how anyone could trust Lavabit to either stick around or actually be private and/or secure.
Protonmail looks interesting. They do not store keys. They can only handover encrypted data. It is open source software. - <a href="https://protonmail.com/blog/switzerland/" rel="nofollow">https://protonmail.com/blog/switzerland/</a>
There's really no coming back for Lavabit. Nobody can trust them anymore, and this isn't just about Lavabit, but about e-mail. If a person is privacy-conscious enough not to use Google, they know not to use anyone else either.
I wonder how they plan to approach security this time, given how much of the previous demise of Lavabit centered around how they had they ability to circumvent the encryption, despite some marketing claims that that wasn't the case
Ladar acted with integrity and self sacrifice. He's earned trust in a way that not many others have.<p>I am looking forward to trying darkmail, or whatever they're branding it as now.
Will this be the debut of Dark Mail in a production service?<p><a href="https://darkmail.info/" rel="nofollow">https://darkmail.info/</a>
Is this supposed to imply that they feel they'll have more freedom/less censorship under Trump (Jan 20 is inauguration day)? Does FISA change ownership/control between the parties when a president's term ends?
Without any details on why this time the service is secure and won't be able to hand over actual user data, it is hard to get excited about the relaunch. Also, nice marketing ploy with re-launching on Inauguration Day.
Something about me does not want to trust a webmail host who has an ad running on their front page reading "date rape appreciation station." This appalling lack of professionalism makes the entire service suspect to me.<p>edit: I would like to thank all the misogynists in this thread voting this down. Thanks for keeping tech a welcoming place for women and victims of assault!