Email Company Used by Snowden Shuts Down Rather Than Hand Over - TopicsExpress

Email Company Used by Snowden Shuts Down Rather Than Hand Over Data To Feds August 8, 2013 When Edward Snowden emailed journalists to a briefing in Moscow last July via his email address: “edsnowden@lavabit” it focused eyes on the courier. Lavabit was created in 2004 as an alternative to Gmail. Edward SnowdenLavabit promised users that their emails could not be scanned for keywords like with Google’s email provider. Lavabit’s website is now shutdown. Being the service that Snowden used it created mass attention from the federal government. Only this letter from Ladar Levison, owner and operator of Lavabit, remains as a landing page. “My Fellow Users, I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on–the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests. What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company. This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States. Sincerely, Ladar Levison Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC Defending the constitution is expensive! Help us by donating to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund here.” thelibertypaper.org/

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