Lavaboom Offers Secure, Encrypted Mail Service
Privacy is a luxury these days, thanks to governments and big corporations. Whenever we use the internet, we have to assume that our web activities and communications are being monitored. If not actively, then passively at least. Loads of leaked documents which end up on Wikileaks serves as standing proof of that. Governments are paranoid and they want to exert control over everyone's lives. Similarly, corporations are hungry for user information and their activities over the internet. User data is valuable information for them, it helps them profile individuals and sell it to advertising....
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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....
ProtonMail offers free, end-to-end encrypted email. Bitcoin users are no strangers to cryptography. After all, Bitcoin wouldn't even exist without it, since cryptography prevents double spending and allows the network to verify ownership of coins. Of course, the primary purpose of cryptography has always been secret communication, and a new service called ProtonMail is offering exactly that. ProtonMail is an email service offering full end-to-end encryption. The service is currently free, and the company plans to offer premium accounts that'll accept bitcoin payments in the near future. I....
Welcome to the second CCN Websites of the Week. In case you missed the announcement last week, this new segment is our way of sharing cool, hand-picked, cryptocurrency-related websites with you every Saturday. Here's this week's selection. LeetCoin. LeetCoin is a great, competitive gaming platform for Bitcoin gamers. LeetCoin is a great, competitive gaming platform for Bitcoin gamers. LeetCoin connects to your Steam Account, since currently the only supported games are Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Source. Users then deposit BTC into their LeetCoin accounts and place funds into one....
A new multi-function platform is coming to the crypto-realm offering an array of services. Bitalo the “highly secure trading environment” is a platform that promotes the use of Bitcoin as the number one currency. The team says it’s a service that offers a product marketplace as well as a fully functioning exchange among it’s many features. The creators say: Bitalo is launching its Swiss-Army knife of cryptocurrency solutions by announcing its new service on December 27. The team administration claims the platform is extremely secure by offering its user-side encrypted multi-signature HD....
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....