Lavabit Shuts Down Over U.S. Spying Policies
Edward Snowden's email provider Lavabit announced it was closing its doors over the United States' surveillance policies last week.
Edward Snowden’s email provider Lavabit announced it was closing its doors over the United State s’ surveillance policies last week.
In a statement on the company’s web site, founder Ladar Levison said, “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.”
Lavabit apparently turned down a U.S. government court order to cooperate in surveillance on its customers by allowing some form of access to the encrypted messages on its servers.
Levison says he plans to appeal the government’s request from him in the U.S.
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