‘Death Before Dishonor: Secure Email Services Shut Down Rather Than Comply With Feds’ – ‘ReadWrite’

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Death Before Dishonor: Secure Email Services Shut Down Rather Than Comply With Feds”.

Sajid Ahmed says, “After secure email provider Lavabit—famously used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden—shut its services down in an attempt to avoid what its CEO Ladar Levison called “crimes against the American people,” Silent Circle said it would terminate its own email service, Silent Mail.

Unlike Lavabit, which suggested it had received a court order to turn over information about its users, Silent Circle hadn’t received a warrant or other notice from the government. Instead, in a statement to TechCrunch, Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke said he anticipated the government would come after them given the nature of the clientele who use Silent Mail”.

Death Before Dishonor: Secure Email Services Shut Down Rather Than Comply With Feds

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