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Lavabit email service abruptly shut down citing government interference

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It looks like Edward Snowden is going to have to find a new email service as the one he supposedly used — Lavabit — has abruptly closed its doors. The.

Lavabit, a service used by whistleblower Edward Snowden that was using public key cryptography to keep messages private in spite of their being stored in the cloud, abruptly shut down on Thursday. Lavabit said that a gag order kept it from giving

With both Lavabit and Silent Mail shut down, we wondered if there were any other options for those seeking secure email? Here is a handy list of some that are still open for business.

Lavabit announced today that it would shut down its encrypted email service rather than “become complicit in crimes against the American people.” Lavabit did not say what it had been asked to do, only that it was legally prohibited from sharing the

Lavabit, which is believed to have been used by Snowden and which claimed to have 350,000 customers, closed after apparently rejecting a US government court order to cooperate in surveillance on its customers by allowing some form of access to the 

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