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>Lavabit believes in privacy and will always ensure your digital freedom.

>Asks for your credit card information on the same page.

Wew, at least let us use buttcoin, Levison.

This is being down voted but is an interesting point. Is a privacy service in which public record is available for its purchases ever truly private? Maybe its extremely difficult for others to see your communications, but if someone (or some law-enforcement agency) knows you have paid for a private communications service, does that make you a candidate for further scrutinization? I think so.

Probably shouldn't pay in Bitcoin then.

Yeah, that and an alternative email is required. Too much personally identifying information is needed for a so-called privacy oriented service.

I understand an additional email is needed right now since it's basically a pre-order, but I would hope that once fully launched this requirement would be removed at least.

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