In August, Ladar Levison, the founder of Lavabit — the email service provider allegedly used by Edward Snowden — decided to shut down the entire company rather than comply with a broad surveillance request . A few hours later, spooked by Levison’s extreme move, private communications startup Silent Circle abruptly and preemptively shut down its own email service, too. See also: Did the FBI Lean On Microsoft for Access to Its Encryption Software? Now, almost three months later, Lavabit and Silent Circle will announce their plans to join forces and launch Dark Mail, a new secure, encrypted and peer-to-peer email system more resistant to government surveillance. They’re calling it the “Dark Mail Alliance.” “It’s time to build a new email protocol that is secure by default, because we can’t trust the Internet anymore, we can’t trust governments anymore ,” said Levison in an interview with Mashable . “So we need to build a new system that is resilient to that kind of interference.” Dark Mail will not only be implemented in new Silent Circle secure email apps, but also offered as an open source system based on a new architecture using the XMPP protocol and the secure protocol developed by… Read full this story
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