Hello Jeffrey,
thanks for posting this.
I was not familiar with Lavabit, till after all the bad stuff had happened to
them and they had shut down.
After your post, I was poking around looking at their stuff in the WayBack
Machine and wondering about their business model.
<https://web.archive.org/web/20120504011429/http://lavabit.com/index.html>
I didn't see any ads or anything else. I'm assuming that they were selling
enough Enhanced and Premium accounts to pay for equipment, COLO and developers
for the custom in-house code/email server that they hint at here.
<https://web.archive.org/web/20120507061800/http://lavabit.com/hardware_software.html>
"For incoming SMTP and POP connections, we use a custom e-mail server developed
by the Lavabit programming team. The e-mail server is written entirely in C and
compiled using GCC."
Either way, looks like they were doing some neat stuff.
Jerry
On 05/20/14 10:13 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind
which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order
requiring the installation of surveillance equipment on my company's
network.
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