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Re:Donate to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund on Friday August 09, 2013 @01:14AM (#6183865)
What legal action are we actually supporting? Defending the rights of a mail provider to not be directly spied upon by the three letter agencies? Transparency in regards to NSA letters? I know they are limited in their speech regarding their legal issues, but is there any explanation on how the funds will be employed?
>(you undoubtedly had to pay for that VPN with a legal name and payment information.)

I used Bytesized-Hosting, which allows you to pay for their VPS with bitcoins. I only had to provide a username, password, and a junk email address. AirVPN, among other VPN providers, also allow you to pay with Bitcoins, which can be anonymized over TOR for that particular transaction. I am not sure how much it helps protect the conifdentiality of the user, but many VPNs also claim to delete their OpenVPN logs immediately after a session has ceased. Though, I suppose if a three letter agency wanted dirt on someone, this policy would be easy enough to circumvent.

Re:Tox: secure messaging for everyone on Monday July 29, 2013 @10:59AM (#6121480)
This has been a project on 4chan's /g/ board that began after Snowden's initial leak. Its good to see that this project has developed into something substantial.