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I watched Citizenfour yesterday and one of the really disturbing parts of movie was Lavabit founder talking at European Parliament about why he had to shut it down. I am glad that something good is coming up. But can we please change name from 'dark' to something like 'secure, encrypted etc'? Dark inherently sounds negative, at least in my part of the world.
3 of 5 comments so far mentioning that the name is a mistake. Allow me to make that 4 of 6. Come on guys, authoritarians are going to argue that this is just about defending criminals and terrorists, do you want to make that argument for them? Call it 'Liberty mail' or something.
Call it just email3, new version number can be hyped to regular Joe customers as being newer, therefore better.
EDIT: Nanjing prices? Seriously Google autocorrect?
3 of 5 comments so far mentioning that the name is a mistake. Allow me to make that 4 of 6. Come on guys, authoritarians are going to argue that this is just about defending criminals and terrorists, do you want to make that argument for them? Call it 'Liberty mail' or something.
Let me enhance the argument Joe Shmoe: "I recently read that dark net users are 90% pedophiles. So is this an email service for pedophiles only?"
Call it just email3, new version number can be hyped to regular Joe customers as being newer, therefore better.
This is a good one. Email3 sounds good. It shortens well - E3 message. The optics here are kind of important. EDIT: Nanjing prices? Seriously Google autocorrect?
I do like putting names on the front page though.
Name it after Voltaire, John Stuart Mill, Locke or similar.
Interestingly, a previous HN discussion also suggested a name change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8157922
(The abbreviation DIME, Dark Internet Mail Environment, sometimes mentioned is also terrible. Hiding 'dark' with an abbreviation isn't enough)
Freedom Mail.
Is that like 'Freedom Fries'?
No reason not to use the same tactics the government uses. Patriot Act? Ha. This frames any attempts to thwart the security by the government as anti-freedom. The "liberty mail" recommendation in here was good too :D