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Originally Posted by north
After the shut down of lavabit I am searching for a good alternative to lavabit and in this case I often think about where to move... (thinking about the same points zinneken wrote about) so any ideas?
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If you rely on the servers to maintain privacy, you are making a mistake, whether it be lavabit or otherwise. The only proper way to secure email is to use some client side encryption like GPGP so that even if someone gets hands on the emails servers, they cant do jack.
Also realise that, taking lavabit, the emails were unencrypted before they reached lavabits servers. Its like someone writing you a postcard, by postal mail and then when you receive it, you put it into a top secret high security vault. Kind of silly since the postcard was readable by all before it reached you.
GPGP on the other hand, is like the sender writing the postcard in code, and mailing the encrypted postcard.