Mastodawn

Does anyone here use #Lavabit email? It's (fortunately!) not my primary provider, but over the last day or two I've started getting prompted to enter my password and tells me it's incorrect when I do.

Their website has been useless for at least a year now I think - it's just been saying "We are not accepting new users at this time. Mail services remain online, while we work on improving our website code."

This means I can't get into my account to check the status, pay for renewing it, anything really.

Just wondering if anyone else has issues with this?

Hope Feb 27, 2025

Well, the FBI has miserably failed at PDF, among 100000 other things. Does that surprise me? Nope! However, by 2025 you'd think they could get it straight!! I had the same problems 12 years ago, while dealing with #Lavabit.

Logan Jan 21, 2025

@CeySaysBooks I totally agree! I have my own domain so it's less work for others to have to update. And, I just paid the yearly subscription so I'm not getting my money back anyways. I just wish there were other E2EE email providers. Maybe #lavabit? how do we feel about them?

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Océane Sep 10, 2024

@meliimming Yesterday I realized that Qobuz, a high-res music service for "demanding listeners", was throwing an "unknown error" for my Lavabit email address. It joins a very select club composed of PayPal, the French postal service, and… the governmental service we use to retrieve our final exams grades.

ProtonMail didn't help, but they were less cavalier about it.

#Lavabit #ProtonMail

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Hope Apr 16, 2024

10 years ago today, I learned what appellate waiver was. I woke up that morning to find out the case I had been following for 8 months was lost. Needless to say, it kind of felt like 1995 all over again, but that was my first one, and I was only 12 back then. Reading the 41 page ruling is never fun, but it still exists, for anyone who wants to go do so. https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/134625.P.pdf #Lavabit

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Cory Doctorow Oct 3, 2023

#15yrsago #WillRogers talks to the bankers: keynote roast from 1924 https://ia904504.us.archive.org/24/items/WillRogersTalksToTheBankers/WILLROGERSTALKSTOTHEBANKERS_WillRogers_VICTOR_45374-A.mp3

#15yrsago Liar’s Poker: a timely moment to revisit 20-year-old memoir of the rise and fall of a #FinancialBubble https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/03/liars-poker-a-timely-moment-to-revisit-20-year-old-memoir-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-financial-bubble/

#10yrsago Fortunately the Milk: Gaiman’s kid-novel is a tribute to fatherly trolling https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/03/fortunately-the-milk-gaimans-kid-novel-is-a-tribute-to-fatherly-trolling/

#10yrsago Unsealed #Lavabit docs show that Feds demanded SSL keys https://www.wired.com/2013/10/lavabit-unsealed/

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Cory Doctorow Oct 3, 2023

#15yrsago #WillRogers talks to the bankers: keynote roast from 1924 https://ia904504.us.archive.org/24/items/WillRogersTalksToTheBankers/WILLROGERSTALKSTOTHEBANKERS_WillRogers_VICTOR_45374-A.mp3

#10yrsago Fortunately the Milk: Gaiman’s kid-novel is a tribute to fatherly trolling https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/03/fortunately-the-milk-gaimans-kid-novel-is-a-tribute-to-fatherly-trolling/

#10yrsago Unsealed #Lavabit docs show that Feds demanded SSL keys https://www.wired.com/2013/10/lavabit-unsealed/

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Cory Doctorow Aug 16, 2023

#10yrsago #CopyrightTroll’s lawyer wants record sealed so we won’t make fun of him https://www.techdirt.com/2013/08/14/prenda-lawyer-would-like-future-documents-sealed-because-techdirt-commenters-said-mean-stuff-about-him/

#10yrsago Horse Association must accept #clones on registry https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cloning-horses/u-s-horse-association-will-be-ordered-to-allow-clones-on-registry-idUSBRE97C01V20130813

#10yrsago Which Congresscritters want to sell out the America’s laws to offshore copyright giants? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/stop-fast-track

#10yrsago #Lavabit’s owner threatened with arrest for shutting down rather than spying on customers https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/lavabit-com-owner-i-could-be-arrested-resisting-surveillance-order-flna6c10908072

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Cory Doctorow Aug 10, 2023

#20yrsago Print-to-toilet-roll https://web.archive.org/web/20030406045030/http://www.idealhomeshow.co.uk/content/attractions/content.asp?location=32

#20yrsago #IanClarke is leaving America https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=73841&cid=6632511

#15yrsago Defunct pizza parlor robot band repurposed for fan music-vids https://www.wired.com/2008/08/showbiz-pizzas/

#10yrsago #Lavabit founder has stopped using email: “If you knew what I know, you might not use it either” https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/09/lavabits-ladar-levison-if-you-knew-what-i-know-about-email-you-might-not-use-it/?sh=745a0549648a

#10yrsago #StephenFry explains what a hateful, terrible thing is the #DailyMail https://web.archive.org/web/20130812055755/http://stephen-fry-me.tumblr.com/post/57805910021/the-daily-mail-and-lord-dacre-appeasing-again

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Cory Doctorow Aug 9, 2023

#10yrsago #Lavabit competitor #SilentCircle shuts down its secure email service, destroys servers https://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/to-our-customers/

#10yrsago Bikram “Yoga” Choudhury accused of rape, sexual harassment, racism, homophobia, and unsafe practices related to the color green https://jezebel.com/bikram-yoga-founder-hates-sluts-and-fatties-loves-talk-1068127138

#10yrsago More on the #NSA’s weird, deceptive, indefensible definition of “#TargetedSurveillance” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-it-means-be-target-or-why-we-once-again-stopped-believing-government-and-once

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