January 23, 2023 Using Aliases to Improve Privacy Our email addresses and cell phone numbers have become highly valuable identifiers for marketers. Like government-issued IDs, your email address and phone number are…
April 25, 2022 Private from Everyone (But Us) Google and Facebook will swear up and down that they do not sell your data. While technically true, they do sell access to your…
January 18, 2021 Choosing a Private Email Service (Part 2) So I want to switch to a new, privacy-respecting email service. How do I even do that? What happens to all the email I…
January 11, 2021 Choosing a Private Email Service (Part 1) What could I learn about you if I read all your emails? Like, all of them. Since you started sending email. Beyond private conversations,…
November 30, 2017 It’s Time for Everyone to use Secure Email In the era of mass surveillance, our communications are being hoovered up, searched and stored by both corporations and intelligence agencies, without a warrant…
August 10, 2017 Why I Killed my Company to Save my Customers, pt 2 In this final segment, we address the classic conundrum: law enforcement believes that your servers hold key information that would prevent a devastating terror…
August 3, 2017 Why I Killed my Company to Save my Customers Ladar Levison is the CEO and Founder of Lavabit – a secure email service whose most famous customer was Edward Snowden. In part one…
May 3, 2017 Your Email is as Vulnerable as Sending a Postcard Would you write banking information, passwords, private conversation or any sensitive data on the back of a postcard? Sounds like a silly question perhaps –…