Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle

Re:Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Co... by conductor on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:41PM (#6182134)

If you are looking for an alternative to Lavabit, try RiseUp [1].

There is a nice read in their "About Us" page [2]

[1] - https://riseup.net/en

[2] - https://help.riseup.net/en/about-us

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Though, it is based in Seattle, so what happened to Lavabit can happen to them too, unfortuneately.

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Co... by grote on Thursday August 08, 2013 @06:14PM (#6182331)

There's also https://mykolab.com hosted in Switzerland. What's more: It is 100% Open Source, so you can host it yourself decentrally.

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Co... by mpyne on Thursday August 08, 2013 @06:46PM (#6182510)

And you probably should, if you want to maximize your legal protections against governments where third-party access to your data gives the government easier access to your data.

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Co... by lvs on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:51PM (#6182205)

All of these centralized services (such as the one you linked) are susceptible to the same strong-arm tactics if they're based in the US.

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Co... by betterunix on Thursday August 08, 2013 @06:09PM (#6182303)

Nothing special about the USA. Hushmail is a Canadian company and they were strong-armed by the DEA.

Do not let some third party hold your keys, do not use some applet to decrypt your mail. This is public key encryption 101.

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