Secure Email Service Lavabit Relaunches

Lavabit, the secure email provider that suspended operations in 2013 after the U.S. government asked for its users’ SSL keys, relaunched Friday under a new architecture. Ladar Levison, the service’s owner and operator, announced Lavabit’s return on Inauguration Day, acknowledging that values such...

In the Wake of the Snowden Revelations, A Wave of Innovation

It was an absurd scene. Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA and a four-star general in the Army, stood alone on the stage, squinting through the floodlights as members of the standing-room-only crowd shouted insults and accusations. Armed men in dark suits roamed the area in front of the...

PGP Inventor announced encrypted PrivatOS based #BLACKPHONE against NSA surveillance

Mobile security may not be secure as you think. In September we have reported that the National Security Agency has the ability to access data on iOS, Android and even BlackBerry devices. Everyday a new revelation of NSA Surveillance Program makes Security and Privacy a major concern for all of u...

How Dark Mail Plans to Build an Open, Secure Email Platform

The new Dark Mail Alliance formed this week by Lavabit and Silent Circle will offer an open platform for secure email that will use existing protocols and cloud storage as a way to evade surveillance. The new system, which should be available next year, is in some ways a throwback to the...

'Dark Mail Alliance', Future of surveillance proof email technology

Yesterday I learned about 'Dark Mail Alliance', where Lavabit, reportedly an email provider for NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Silent Circle comes together to create a surveillance-proof email technology. Ladar Levison at Lavabit and Silent Circle CEO Mike Janke, Founders of two e-mail services th...

'Dark Mail Alliance', Future of surveillance proof email technology

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Lavabit, Silent Circle Form New Anti-Surveillance Dark Mail Alliance

As the stunning revelations about the NSA’s collection methods and capabilities continue to mount, two secure email providers that have shut down their services in recent months have formed a new alliance to develop and deploy a new secure email platform that will be resistant to surveillance and...