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Lavabit Briefly Allowing Users To Recover Their Data

Posted by Soulskill on from the back-from-the-dead-for-a-few-days dept.

itwbennett writes "Former users of the Lavabit encrypted email service that was shut down in August have 72 hours (starting yesterday at 7 p.m. U.S. Central Time) to change their passwords and start recovering their data. 'Following the 72 hour period, Thursday, October 17th, the website will then allow users to access email archives and their personal account data so that it may be preserved by the user,' said Lavabit's founder and owner Ladar Levison."

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  1. Re:It's a trap! by heypete · · Score: 4, Insightful

    i consider my lavabit mail a lost cause

    Then you are not the user that the archive download service is intended for.

    Many users expressed a desire to download the contents of their mailbox even if it meant that the messages would be potentially snooped on, as they had important-but-not-private messages that they needed to recover. The archive download service is intended for those users, not those with high-security needs.