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October 3, 2013 07:36 pm GMT
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Lavabit Founder Details Government Surveillance Of Secure Email While Documents Disclose Epic Trolling Of Feds
Ladar Levison, founder of secure email provider Lavabit, has posted a Facebook message detailing his current situation in regards to the shutdown of the service. I simply couldnt operate Lavabit while my lawyers appealed the demand for our [Lavabits] encryption keys without the government agreeing to provide the transparency demanded by my conscience. The ethical implications ultimately prompted my decision to suspend the [Lavabit] service," he wrote in a post describing the lengths to which the US government wanted to go to police his secure email provider.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/3inxlu23y6A/
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