Lavabit abruptly shuts down

Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by skrowl on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:43PM (#6181338)

So.... what should we use now?

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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by AmVess on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:01PM (#6181888)

At the rate things are going, smoke signals encrypted with a one-time pad.

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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by grote on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:08PM (#6181932)

I'd recommend https://MyKolab.com It is 100% Open Source and hosted in Switzerland where the world's strongest privacy laws exist.

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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by WhoIsSatoshi on Thursday August 08, 2013 @04:43PM (#6181749)

Is MEGA (https://mega.co.nz/) an acceptable company? What's the HN consensus on this? Kim Dotcom does appear a bit sketchy.

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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by hnha on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:12PM (#6181956)

god, no. that weasel ran bbs systems for the whole purpose of ratting out warez users to the authorities, making money through it as he coorporated with a lawyer. he actively spied on the users. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz#Werdegang

never ever trust that piece of ....

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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by reledi on Friday August 09, 2013 @02:06AM (#6183990)

In the last few months he's been very verbal about being pro-privacy and anti-NSA on his twitter feed [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/kimdotcom

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