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I just lost access to my primary email account.
by aleksis 13y ago
I just lost access to my primary email account.
- Kelet 13y agoMe too. It took a long time to update all of my account information for every website and service I use. It took me a long time to get all of my friends, colleagues, etc. notified that I had switched. I now have a trail of being under my Lavabit account. Commits, patches, websites, services, friends all thinking I'm still under that account. Now I've got to do it once again, only a few weeks later. Sigh. I can't blame Lavabit really. Just a situation I'd hope to avoid.
- unethical_ban 13y agoDo what I do! I have my own domain name, currently hosting with Google Apps. If I get the motivation to move to another host like myself, I can do it without changing contact information.
- throwit1979 13y agoOh good, because Google will never be subject to an NSL.
- unethical_ban 13y agoAt the moment, I accept the danger and resent myself for it. Moving to a custom domain is one step in the process, though. And really, since all your email hops through relays constantly, the only truly effective anti-spy technology is message encryption, which wouldn't depend on where the messages end up.
- sneak 13y agoEveryone you converse with uses gmail.
- MrKurtz 13y agoAt least they're transparent (as one can be) about it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/transparency-report-shedding-more-light.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/transparency-report-s...
- a3n 13y agoYes, absolutely. Everyone here should do this. Never have your identity tied to a mere provider.
- sigkill 13y agoYeah, I thank my stars that I had the sense to do this almost 2 years ago. It really is much better. Another neat hack of using your custom domain is when people ask for your email address you can make one up without you appearing in their chat list. So for instance on Google Talk you're registered as iam@firstlastname.com, you could simply give them i@firstlastname.com so they can still converse with you (catch-alls ftw) yet they don't annoyingly appear on your Talk list. And yeah, changing providers is just a matter of altering a field or two in the host records page.
- computer 13y agoThat's a nightmare. However, I do feel strongly that lavabit made the only right choice. The US government is entirely to blame.
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- computer 13y agoActually, I don't think so, if he was a paying user. Everything on-disk was encrypted for paying users, and since lavabit had to shut down completely to not "be complicit in a crime against the American public", I assume that the NSL wanted them to make a change like Hushmail did in the past, to send the user's password to the server on the next login so that they can decrypt all emails.
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- nwp90 13y agoI would assume that the NSA had already forcibly installed something that would compromise all further access to lavabit mail. Therefore the only option that doesn't reveal data is immediate shutdown.
- sneak 13y agoThat's not how Lavabit worked.
- aet 13y agoDid you get a refund?