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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by marssaxman on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:40PM (#6181313)
...which is why you encrypt the contents before you send it, yes?
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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by wmf on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:44PM (#6181347)
Considering that most other people don't use email encryption, no.
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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by jethro_tell on Thursday August 08, 2013 @06:50PM (#6182526)
This is why the speculation that even with encrypted emails, to and from address is in the clear and that could be valuable info to government. So we're back to meta data in plain text both in transit and storage.
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