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Comment by zymhan | Hacker News Reader

Any reason I shouldn't sign up right now?

edit: Signed up. Half off for life is a sweet deal.

Not questioning you, since anon might not be your primary driver. However, this reminds of a UK survey in the early 2000's that said some crazy number (50%?) of computer users would give up their password for a candy bar :-)

As written in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13447493), one has to give away too much personal information without clear reason.

I would suggest to use https://posteo.de instead. They offer anonymous payment by post (I'm just a happy user).

> I would suggest to use https://posteo.de instead. They offer anonymous payment by post (I'm just a happy user).

I glanced at it. It may offer anonymous signup but it uses standard mail protocols. Almost every email Posteo processes for its users reveals their identities.

I'm not trying to have anonymous email, my personal email has my full name as the domain. I just want something that is encrypted and open-source.

I give away my name and credit card info to plenty of websites. That won't help someone crack my private key used for lavabit any easier.

Has the code been audited?

Meh, I can always not renew it. I'm unlikely to be better off continuing to use Gmail in the meantime.

If you had any old account, looks like you should be able to connect now.

Too bad imap.lavabit.com:143 is firewalled on their side.

The website is up now, I think it'll be a bit until the mail is up.

Source: https://twitter.com/kingladar/status/822583975067713536

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