{"id":7936,"date":"2014-08-10T19:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T23:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2014-08-10T19:39:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T23:39:34","slug":"hackers-want-to-change-email-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/hackers-want-to-change-email-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Want to Change Email Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hackers Unveil Their Plan To Change Email Forever<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The creator of an ultra-secure email service once said to be used by Edward Snowden unveiled his next project at a major hacker conference Friday: He and others like him want to change the very nature of email forever.<\/p>\n

Ladar Levison, creator of the Lavabit encrypted email provider, was forced in August of last year to give investigators access to an account reportedly used by Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, after a tug-of-war with federal authorities. But rather than compromise the privacy of his other 400,000-plus email users, Levison says, he shut the entire project down. A similar encrypted email provider, Silent Circle, took heed and shuttered its own service to pre-empt any federal authorities that might come demanding information from it as well.<\/p>\n

Out of those ashes, Levison and others launched the Dark Mail project, which is developing Dime, a set of new email protocols its creators hope will revolutionize the way the world communicates online.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I sound a little bit upset, it\u2019s because I am,\u201d Levison told a packed ballroom Friday at Defcon, a top hacker conference held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not upset that I got railroaded and I had to shut down my business,\u201d said Levison. \u201cI\u2019m upset because we need a Mil-Spec [military grade] cryptographic mail system for the entire planet just to be able to talk to our friends and family without any kind of fear of government surveillance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Time.com – read the entire article here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hackers Unveil Their Plan To Change Email Forever The creator of an ultra-secure email service once said to be used by Edward Snowden unveiled his next project at a major hacker conference Friday: He and others like him want to change the very nature of email forever. Ladar Levison, creator of the Lavabit encrypted email provider, was forced\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7939,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/7939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}