Ed Snowden’s e-mail service shuts down, leaving cryptic message

Posted by BernardSwiss on Aug 9, 2013 5:25 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Joe Mullin
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Not all the attention may have been positive. Less than a month after Snowden was revealed to have used the service, it has been shut down. The owner of Lavabit, Ladar Levison, has left a cryptic and chilling message stating that he had to walk away from the ten years of work he put into Lavabit, lest he "become complicit in crimes against the American public." Until real reform happens, Levison says he "would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."

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