Secure Email Lavaboom Has 10,000 People on the Waiting List for Private Beta

  • 1 May 2014
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The world needs encryption, said Edward Snowden not too long ago, and the thought was echoed by security experts around the world, tech companies and the public.

Proper encryption will keep your conversations and files safe from prying eyes, whether that means hiding them from hackers or intelligence agencies. Of course, all cyphers can be broken, but that usually requires a lot of work, which is why the NSA tried to get companies to implement their own random number generators – with the right key, they wouldn’t have to try too much to crack open encrypted files.

The complete disregard for people’s privacy was made obvious last year when Lavabit, the secure email service supposedly used by Edward Snowden, was shut down after the US government demanded that the site turn over the SSL keys. This wouldn’t have revealed Snowden’s files alone, but of all 400,000 users of the service.

 
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I'm not surprised.  He can pretty much pick up the entirety of Lavabit's clientbase.

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