If Snowden or IS uses this service, it&#x27;s still possible for governments to take you to court Lavabit-style (minus SSL private key) (or Mega or PirateBay) and get a court order to shut you down unless you have colo&#x2F;VPS hosting in Iceland, Sweden or similar jurisdiction and private DNS registration with a registrar independent from most corporate&#x2F;diplomatic pressures (definitely not name.com, maybe what piratebay uses: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.binero.se" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.binero.se</a> or similar with less inflammatory&#x2F;infamous clients).<p>Privacy as a service&#x2F;app cannot be sustainably delivered without being <i>distributed</i>, like TahoeLAFS or i2p.  Company-run, centralized service&#x2F;apps are SPOFs because they&#x27;re at massive risk of being shutdown or blocked by friendly&#x2F;unfriendly governments, at their whims, by whomever happens to be in power.  The instant email option is <i>partly</i> distributed but the bigger risk is being in the US means US courts, FBI, local police, etc. can grab your provider&#x27;s servers.  name.com is also subject to both Irish <i>and</i> American laws.<p>Unfortunately, most founders of privacy apps are business naïve and unable to manage their attack surface, making them easy prey to non-technical but more business-savvy folks.  This resistance is further compounded by the sunk costs-bias, because what&#x27;s done is seen as an immovable foundation which can never be torn down and, therefore, it must be worthwhile in the face of overwhelming contradictory evidence (e.g., 1950&#x27;s lifestyle worship leads to cognitive dissonance with climate change).  In reality, a venture should be a viewed as a never-ending collection experiments, where the assumptions may be turn out to be terrible to excellent (hopefully nearer to this) and trends&#x2F;disruptions may move out from under it all.<p>Good luck and I hope it makes a lot of money before it gets shutdown by Hillary or the Great Firewall of China.