As some of you may know, the DarkMail project, spearheaded by Ladar Levison (Lavabit) and Mike Janke (Silent Circle) recently launched a kickstarter to combine and open source the technology that will create an end-to-end secure replacement system for today’s current email protocols.

On Wednesday, the Kickstarter reached it’s goal and funded!  This will be a project to watch in the coming year as we move toward a world where our communications are free from intrusions that violate both the letter and the spirit of the fourth amendment.

Ladar was giving a speech on Tuesday at Yale, and RMS (you may know him as Richard Stallman) himself dropped in to support him!  How awesome is that?!!

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Congratulations to Ladar and Mike and their teams, and to you who donated and helped make this possible!

Learn more about the project:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/30/lavabit-and-silent-circle-join-forces-to-make-all-email-surveillance-proof/

(Image above was posted from Ladar’s Facebook account with “Public” privacy settings and is reposted here under fair use. )

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