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[steveoi812]

scary as fuck....read this...its on the coverpage now....an no way to get in your email...

We are very sorry. The current safe-mail service downtime is a major event, we should learn from it and come out with a much better service for our loyal users.
About 18 month ago we have switched our hosting company as we felt that our previous hosting service was not as good as we would like it to be.
During the last year we have suffered from an increasing level of abuse and attacks of many types. Eventually we had to stop automatic self-registration and require a mail request to open a free account.
For several months we are in the process of transferring users' data to new and better equipment, as a result about 90% of our users will not lose any data. The rest may suffer a minimal loss of messages sent or received just before the crash (hours up to a few days).
During this downtime we have already replaced most of our hardware and installed a new version of the operating system.
The current downtime forced us to execute the system overhaul earlier than planned.
We think that this is not good enough.
As soon as the system is functioning, we intend to start building a separate system dedicated to our Premium users.
This system will have full redundancy and could continue working even if the Free sub-system will need to shut down.
Wed Nov 4 03:20 EST 2015


The Safe-mail.net system suffered a major storage hardware crash.
Much of the Safe-mail.net system is now renewed. Most of the users' data was not affected by the crash, as we already moved it to a new system during the last few months.
Once the system is functioning again, most of the hardware (and operating system) will be new.
We salvaged additional data from the crashed storage.
About 8% of users' data need to be recovered from the Backup system. Accounts that will be restored from the Backup system may loose the last few hours of activity before the crash.
The Safe-mail.net system suffered a major storage hardware crash.
About 80% of user's data is not affected by the crash, as we already moved it to a new system during the last few months.
The rest is either to be salvaged from the crashed storage, or will be restored from the Backup system.
At this time we will permanently remove about 250,000 user accounts that were involved in activity which violates the Safe-mail.net Agreement and policy.
Note: Only those who violate our policy will be deleted. Most accounts are not affected.

Free web based registration to Safe-mail.net will not be available.
Free accounts will be opened by sending a request to Safe-mail.net.
In the near future, separate subsystems will be used for Free and Premium accounts.
This will enable better service and even enable shutdown of the Free subsystem without affecting the Premium users.

[LIBERTYNY]

It seems all the safe/secure/private e-mail providers are having problems lately.

I seen this just the other day, as well as hushmail has ben having issiues

 'A provider of end-to-end encrypted e-mail said it paid a ransom of almost $6,000 to stop highly advanced denial-of-service attacks that knocked its networks and the networks of some of its upstream providers offline.

In a blog post published Thursday, officials of Switzerland-based ProtonMail said they "grudgingly agreed" to pay a ransom of 15 bitcoins, which at current valuations came to about $5,850. In exchange, the attackers were to halt the assault. Even after paying the sum, however, crippling attacks continued, although at the time the blog post was being written, they had subsided.

The ransom payment is generating protest from critics who say it will only encourage more attacks. But as ProtonMail officials wrote, they saw the situation differently:

    We hoped that by paying, we could spare the other companies impacted by the attack against us, but the attacks continued nevertheless. Attacks against infrastructure continued throughout the evening and in order to keep other customers online, our ISP was forced to stop announcing our IP range, effectively taking us offline. The attack disrupted traffic across the ISP’s entire network and got so serious that the criminals who extorted us previously even found it necessary to write us to deny responsibility for the second attack'

   ---   http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/crypto-e-mail-service-pays-6000-ransom-gets-taken-out-by-ddos-anyway/
 
 My money says the .gov is doing this to make these slightly private e-mails unrealiable     

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[steveoi812]

think this has anything to do with the nook being down??