On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 01:52:16PM -0400, Sam Moats wrote: > The problem being is when you do have a provider that appears to be > secure and out of reach, think lavabit, that provider will not survive > for long.
That's true -- it is far easier to subvert email than most other services, and in the case of email we probably need a wholly new protocol. But many or most services can be sufficiently improved, and that's the goal: improvement. http://prism-break.org/ lists examples of this improvement. Nicolai