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:  juicewvu@gmail.com
phone:  304.237.9369(c)




On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Adam M. Dutko <dutko.adam@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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 <joshua_rickmar@eumx.net
> >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