The founders of Lavabit and Silent Circle announced that they want to change the world of e-mail by putting privacy and security at its core. The new protocol will be based on Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, or XMPP, and it’s set to be released in mid-2014. The group will ditch the old protocol, SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), which is used for almost every bit of the Internet. The organizers say that DarkMail will be available as an add-on or an option to existing providers.”]