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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by throwit1979 on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:42PM (#6181330)
Oh good, because Google will never be subject to an NSL.
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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by unethical_ban on Thursday August 08, 2013 @04:19PM (#6181601)
At the moment, I accept the danger and resent myself for it. Moving to a custom domain is one step in the process, though.

And really, since all your email hops through relays constantly, the only truly effective anti-spy technology is message encryption, which wouldn't depend on where the messages end up.

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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by sneak on Thursday August 08, 2013 @04:50PM (#6181803)
Everyone you converse with uses gmail.
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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by MrKurtz on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:41PM (#6182135)
At least they're transparent (as one can be) about it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/transparency-report-s...
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