I just posted a link to a facebook status of Ladar Levison [1], who says that the Dark mail Initiative has been funded, and that he will soon be looking at resumes. I assume it can be of interest to people here on HN :-).
[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827595" >
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