Bitmessage: Paging Mr. Snowden, Lavabit
A US appeals court has upheld a contempt of court ruling against Lavabit, a supposedly secure email service, which was reported to be used by the world’s most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden. Just how secure was Lavabit’s encryption mechanism? Are there any better alternatives that could actually prevent eavesdropping in light of the NSA scandal? Lavabit received media attention in July 2013 when it was revealed that Edward Snowden was using the encrypted email service with the [email protected] address to invite the media, human rights lawyers and activists to his press....
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Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers, which also supports decentralized mailing lists (DML, or "chans."). The concept for Bitmessage was conceived by software developer Jonathan Warren, who based its design on Bitcoin. The open source Bitmessage software was released in November 2012 under the MIT license. There is also a Bitmessage Mail Gateway at bitmessage.ch, but it's not accepting new user registrations at the moment. Also read: Tox: Encrypted Skype Replacement Will Possibly Integrate Bitcoin. Bitmessage....
Imagine sending emails on a service that is as secure as a Blockchain? Lavabit, the well-known email encryption service which was forced to shut down is looking for a comeback as Dark Mail. Dark Mail is an ongoing project undertaken by The Dark Mail Alliance, which is a collaboration between Lavabit and Silent Circle. Founded in the year 2004 by Texas based Ladar Levison, Lavabit provided secure email services to over 410,000 people for almost a decade before the United States federal authorities forced him to take the decision of shutting down the service instead of sharing user....
Lavabit and Silent Circle have both closed down their encrypted email services amid suggestions the US government was demanding the companies sacrifice their customers' privacy. The Lavabit site now features only a statement from its owner and operator Ladar Levison, which begins: "I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that....
We've seen the impact that Bitcoin can have on the future of payments. But money is not the only area that the movement is influencing. Bitmessage is a protocol that implements some of the ideas of Bitcoin into communications. Given the pressure on technology companies to cooperate with governments regarding services like email, those looking for a private way to communicate could find Bitmessage's concept quite interesting. We live in a time where cloud computing has become the norm for our digital services. That means that a lot of our information is actually stored in data centers....
The whistleblower and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and subcontractor Edward Snowden has revealed he is stepping into the world of non-fungible token (NFT) assets. Moreover, 100% of the NFT sale proceeds will be donated to the Freedom of the Press Foundation. American Whistleblower Edward Snowden Mints an NFT Edward Snowden is a well known whistleblower who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) back in 2013. Snowden is a privacy advocate and has explained that he is positive about digital currencies like bitcoin (BTC) in the past.....