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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 Havokmon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It must be encrypted and the only way for the nsa to get it is to have it unencrypted and sent over the wire via ssl!!!

    Exactly - cause when it was sent to the server unencrypted, and then encrypted ON the server itself with the password you sent - it's totally secure.

    I'll just give my lockbox key to the teller, watch her disappear into the vault, and she should reappear with all my stuff without having looking through it.

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