Lavabit email service abruptly shut down citing government interference | Technology | theguardian.com
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Snowden was allegedly a Lavabit customer. A Lavabit email address believed to come from Snowden invited reporters to a press conference at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in mid-July.
Lavabit email service abruptly shut down citing government interference | Technology | theguardian.com
►http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/08/lavabit-email-shut-down-edward-snowden
Privacy advocates called the moves unprecedented. “I am unaware of any situation in which a service provider chose to shut down rather than comply with a court order they felt violated the constitution,” said Kurt Opsahl, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Lavabit email service abruptly shut down citing government interference | Technology | theguardian.com
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Lavabit, an email service that boasted of its security features and claimed 350,000 customers, is no more, apparently after rejecting a court order for cooperation with the US government to participate in surveillance on its customers. It is the first such company known to have shuttered rather than comply with government surveillance.
Silent Circle, another provider of secure online services, announced on later Thursday night that it would scrap its own encrypted email offering, Silent Mail.
