Lavabit LLC

Lavabit friends & customers, currently the Lavabit site and email are offline. The Lavabit team is working to resolve the issue.

Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever Legal experts believe Facebook profiling may run afoul of federal law on credit checks.

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How a Secret U.S. Cyberweapon Backfired Hackers have seized government computer systems using the National Security Agency’s own hacking tool.

Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy — and it's hard to delete Google collects the purchases you've made, including from other stores and sites such as Amazon, and saves them on a page called Purchases.

Hi Lavabit well-wishers,

I am Aakash Sareen, architect for the Volcano project, and lead slinger of source code. I’ll be posting updates on our progress periodically on the development of Volcano. To that end, it’s my pleasure to announce, that with the success of the Republic campaign, we’ve already begun laying the groundwork for the expanded development to begin. To that end, the CEO, Ladar Levison, has already made the trip to India, where he’ll be spending the next few months training our new recruits to work on the next generation of email, also known as Magma and Volcano.

Our first few days have been extremely busy. We’ve been in meetings with Ladar, as we translate his vision and goals for Lavabit into action items. Our short term planning has been focused around libdime, the cross platform library, and backbone needed to support the rest of our Dark Internet Mail Environment implementation. It’s the critical missing piece needed to bring end to end private and encrypted email to every desktop and mobile device.

The months ahead of us are gonna be full of hard work and excitement, but I would still like to say, on behalf of the entire team, we feel privileged to be working on this project, because we believe in Lavabit’s mission. It’s time for users to take back control of their privacy.

Best,
Aakash

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The US needs to wake up to privacy.

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GoDuckDuckGo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'I come to you from the future’: DuckDuckGo founder tells Congress how U.S. would win by limiting ‘invasive’ Google, Facebook tracking Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of Paoli-based DuckDuckGo, the #4 U.S. search engine, said Americans would be happier if Congress banned or at least made it easier for consumers to block corporate data collection.