Unfortunately it appears that lavabit isn't accepting new users at the moment. Their service does look interesting tho.
Thanks, Josh Smith KD8HRX email/jabber: [email protected] phone: 304.237.9369(c) On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Adam M. Dutko <[email protected]> wrote: > How do they deal with legal jurisdiction? Technically the government can > still subpoena and they'd have to turn over the documents in the persons > account, including backups. I "pine" for "Sealand" but even then one would > have to trust the owners of Sealand not to snoop. Again, the best solution > is probably run your own. > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Josh Rickmar <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On Thu, December 9, 2010 2:37 pm, Scott McEachern wrote: > > > On 12/09/10 10:01, lh wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> what are the good available alternatives (security/privacy) for gmail > > >> you're using? > > >> > > >> Cheers! > > >> > > > > > > As many others suggested, using your own mail server that you control > is > > > the *best* way, but that doesn't answer your question. > > > > > > I know people that use Lavabit.com for free email and they swear by it. > > > (I use my own mail server, thank-you.) > > > > > > The lavabit page boasts of privacy ("a system so secure > > > <http://lavabit.com/secure.html> that even our administrators can t > read > > > your e-mail") but you can never really know unless you're an admin > > > there. They offer encrypted connections/ports to send/receive on top of > > > port 25. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > - Scott > > > > > > > > > > Their encryption is only for paid users, not free accounts. > > > > I have an "enhanced" account with them that I use for my personal email. > > I have the asynchronous encryption option enabled, but yeah, there's no > > real way of knowing for sure. > > > > No complaints about the service though. > > > > Josh
