After Lavabit, Silent Circle also shuts down email service.
After Lavabit, Silent Circle also shuts down its encrypted email service.
Lavabit to reopen for 5 days to let users
download lost emails.
Lavabit, an encrypted email service believed to have
been used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, has abruptly shut down.
Nonetheless, as a business operating in the United States, PIA is still obligated to comply with all US laws, regulations, and court orders-
or shut down like Lavabit in 2013.
Ladar Levison, that site's owner, wrote on his homepage:"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.
The founder of Lavabit, Ladar Levison, wrote on the company's website:"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.".