Fascinating and lucid talk. Thank you for pointing it out!
But speaking of the trio of "freedom, privacy, and autonomy", it still is not evident to me how Own-Mailbox affords its owner/user more than perhaps a token degree of additional autonomy. Unlike the distributed/decentralized model promoted by the FreedomBox, there seems to be nothing particularly special about this box apart from the simple way it promises to be able to include non-gpg users in encrypted correspondence. (Which would be a cool trick!) The internet mail network employed seems to be exactly the same internet mail you know and love (whether encrypted or not), which means that the user/owner of an OM mail server remains just as marginalized as before in receiving mere copies of her mail data as the last delivery point in what is typically a chain of mail servers/relays. So unless I am misunderstanding something, it would seem to me that an OM user/owner's mail and metadata remains potentially just as easy to collect by intermediaries as it is now through a traditional non-OM mail service. Those logs & data, then, will remain out in the wild stored on x number of mail relays, existing outside said user's control. And the mail stored on your own OM server are almost undoubtedly not the only copies of that mail in existence. (Although GnuPG will hopefully render them permanently unreadable to third-parties, but this is not by any means unique to OM.) And accessing your private mail server from outside your LAN will remain just as UNprivate as it ever was.
In short, OM is a small step forward, perhaps, but it is by no means the decentralized model for mail that Mr. Moglen was talking about. It does not address most of "the issues."
