The most unhackable e-mail service provider Lavabit is reportedly back on track after the owner decided to shut it down in 2013 and refuses to give the SSL key encryption key to the government for Edward Snowden case. New architecture, SSL fixes and more privacy-enhancing features are expected from Lavabit. See full details for the registration of new accounts!

Lavabit Resurrected During Donald Trump's Inauguration Day

On the Lavabit homepage, the company founder Ladar Levison wrote the reason why he chooses to re-launch Lavabit during the Inauguration Day of Donald Trump and that's because he acknowledges the values of freedom, justice and liberty as secured in the constitution of the United States. The Lavabit is now back with privacy-enhancing features that comes in three e-mail modes: Trustful, Cautious and Paranoid, according to Digital Trends.

In its 20 years of existence, Lavabit has been considered as notoriously unfriendly because of it requires technical expertise even up to its most basic service the e-mails and this is where the Trustful mode comes in where the users need to put their trust to Lavabit for the encryption. Cautious and Paranoid modes requires the users to be more tech savvy because they will need to download the source code for the email server and run the servers at home, according to CNET.

Lavabit former users who belong to the 410,000 suspended accounts are now able to start using it again. The site is accepting new registrations but can start using them sometime later in 2017.

Lavabit History and Edward Snowden Case

A year after it shutdown, Lavabit founder started working on Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME) an innovative SSL encryption fixes called MAGMA under the Kickstarter funding. For this reason, unauthorized access from FBI, NSA or any other agencies who has interest on the credential information of a certain user has been automatically blocked just like in the case of the infamous NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

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