Lavabit founder has stopped using email: “If you knew what I know, you might not use it either”
Cory Doctorow
Boingboing.net
Sat, Aug 10, 2013
Earlier this week, Xeni reported on the shutdown of Lavabit, the email provider used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ladar Levison, Lavabit’s founder, has given an interview to Forbes about his reasoning for the shutdown, which comes — apparently — as a result of a secret NSA search-warrant complete with a gag order.
After discussing the general absurdity and creepiness of not being allowed to freely criticize the government for the order they brought to his company, he concludes by saying that he’s stopped using email altogether, and “If you knew what I know about email, you might not use it either.”
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