UPDATE: On Tuesday, August 13, Ladar Levison made his first public appearance since he announced the shut down of Lavabit. In a 20-minute interview with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, ...

LONDON (AP) - A Texas-based email service reportedly used by National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden said it was shutting down Thursday, explaining in a cryptic message that it would ...

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An email provider reportedly used by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden shut down on Thursday, citing an ongoing court battle that it could not discuss. Lavabit, which launched in 2004, specialized ...

The developer behind Lavabit, an email service that noted leaker Edward Snowden used, is releasing source code for an open-source end-to-end encrypted email standard that promises surveillance-proof ...

Lavabit has resurrected itself from the ashes to once again provide secure email services in a post-Snowden world. Ladar Levison, CEO and owner of Lavabit, chose the US Inauguration Day to announce ...

After secure email provider Lavabit shuttered its services, security researcher Moxie Marlinspike took a closer look at its proffered services. What he saw didn’t give him a lot of confidence. But the ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a contempt of court ruling against Ladar Levison and his now-defunct encrypted e-mail service provider, Lavabit LLC, for hindering the government’s ...

Lavabit, the secure email provider that suspended operations back in 2013 after the US government asked for its users SSL keys, relaunched Friday under a new architecture. Lavabit, the secure email ...

Email service provider Lavabit famously (in tech security circles anyway) shut its doors and turned itself off back in 2013. Its owner, Ladar Levison, explained that he was doing so to keep from ...