Lavabit to Make a Comeback as Dark Mail Soon
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....
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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....
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....
Bitcoin users care a lot about privacy, particularly financial privacy. While the anonymity that Bitcoin offers can be used for illegal activities, everyone has a right to privacy, a right that has been flagrantly violated by the U. S. National Security Agency (NSA), Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and others. Email is one of the number one forms of communication on the Internet. However, many government intelligence agencies are known to intercept emails, and secure services like Lavabit have been forced to shut down. Fortunately, a new Germany-based service....
Convicted dark web vendor Chrissano Leslie, 26, was sentenced last Tuesday and will likely be deported after his release. His defense framed him not as a big drug trafficker, but a street-level dealer who just so happened to sell heroin, fentanyl and other drugs thanks to the dark web. Prosecutors portrayed Leslie as standing on a high tech street corner on a sophisticated online marketplace they called “an anonymous eBay” for criminals. Senior U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley said he was concerned with a recent spike in heroin and fentanyl abuse. “People are overdosing and dying,”....
A number of "NSA proof" e-mail services are currently in later stages of development or private beta, but there's one that seems to be ahead of the game: Germany-based Tutanota. The end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider announced Tuesday that they had released their source code on GitHub, claiming to be the first operational, secure e-mail application to go open source. Now, Tutanota, who first launched internationally in July, says they hope the community will take to the task of inspecting their code, ensuring it is of proper integrity, and also hope that users will make requests for....