Re: Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit

[Jerry <sec-acct.14 () oryx cc>]

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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