[ale] OT interesting interview with owner of Lavabit

John Pilman jcpilman at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 08:25:36 EST 2013


Levison is also running a Kickstarter to release Lavabit code as
f/oss. Here<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative?ref=recently_launched>


...John



On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

>
>
> He's now in the middle of a serious legal battle with the government, and
> is facing $ 100 K in legal bills, and $ 10 K in fines from the govt.  He
> has raised enough money to cover that, but is also trying to raise another
> $ 200 K to open source all the custom email server code that he had
> developed, so people can run their own "Lavabit" systems.
>
> He has a paypal link on his site for support, but when I clicked that, I
> got an error.
>
> He said you can paypal to support at lavabit.com, but since I got the error
> on the link that went to paypal, I don't know if that would work either.
>
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