somelinuxuser

Do you have any plans to allow users to run their own servers for CM accounts?

I think, Moxie Marlinspike criticized Lavabit partially for problems that it had no influence over because they ware due to the way the e-mail protocols are designed. Dark Mail is an attempt to fix exactly those problems. So this seems to be a good response.

Thanks for doing this AMA and creating the Dark Mail Alliance!

Today, instead of writing e-mails, many use tools like Facebook, WhatsApp or Hangouts to communicate and send files like pictures. Those are centralized and closed systems and therefore an easy target for surveillance. What should we do about that? Very few people use XMPP and end-to-end encryption.

Thanks for your reply! I agree, now is probably the best opportunity to build such a system that allows easy encryption.

Does Dark Mail in some way merge e-mail and XMPP? That might be a good opportunity to improve what e-mail is capable of. As you said, it is difficult to convince someone to use encryption. If Dark Mail brings some improvements to e-mail, it might increase the adoption of Dark Mail.

Lavabit was far away from being secure but it is difficult to improve the security of e-mail. If there is an unencrypted e-mail send to your inbox at Lavabit, Lavabit cannot prevent that it receives an unencrypted e-mail.