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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by mllerustad on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:45PM (#6181354)
This is why I contributed to Mailpile(http://www.mailpile.is/)'s fundraiser and hang out in their IRC channel. We need more, better, easy-to-use distributed, crypto-friendly mail software, and we need them yesterday. :/
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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by jerfelix on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:55PM (#6181424)
bitmessage may be our only hope.
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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by nwh on Thursday August 08, 2013 @08:28PM (#6182936)
Bitmessage is fairly atrocious to use in practise. It's slow (by design) and extremely difficult to use properly. Moreover, I'd bet my hat that it's not secure.
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