It would be really awesome if the LavaBit team released all their trade secrets, including their C code for their custom daemons, and other substantial details, as an open source project. ...that is, if there's truly no hope, and they've shuttered the business for good, and never plan on re-opening their doors and returning to business.
Hardware and Service Provider expenses aside, this would represent an opportunity for many people to create their own systems and participate in a distributed, federated network of professionally vetted, (ostensibly) secure e-mail services, based on field tested architectural standards.
If the company is dead, why not turn lavabit.com into the homepage of a project spawned from the ashes of the original business.
Hardware and Service Provider expenses aside, this would represent an opportunity for many people to create their own systems and participate in a distributed, federated network of professionally vetted, (ostensibly) secure e-mail services, based on field tested architectural standards.
If the company is dead, why not turn lavabit.com into the homepage of a project spawned from the ashes of the original business.