[<a href="//storify.com/cbccommunity/encryped-email-lavabit-shut-down-snowden" target="_blank">View the story "Snowden's encrypted email service Lavabit shuts down" on Storify</a>]<h1>Snowden's encrypted email service Lavabit shuts down</h1><h2></h2><p>Storified by <a href="http://storify.com/cbccommunity">CBC News Community</a>· Fri, Aug 09 2013 08:09:15</p><div>A U.S.-based company offering encrypted email service to its customers -- including, reportedly, NSA leaker Edward Snowden -- has mysteriously shut down, and at least one other such service has followed suit. <br></div><div>@boingboing @xeni So Lavabit (encrypted email service that Snowden apparently used) has abruptly shut down. Read: http://lavabit.com/David D.</div><div>Lavabit owner Ladar Levison wrote a post on the <a href="http://lavabit.com/" class="">service's homepage</a> saying his choice was to either "walk away from nearly 10 years of hard work" or "to become complicit in crimes against the American people." </div><div><i>"After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what's going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise."</i><br></div><div>The post didn't mention Snowden by name, but its timing -- and other public information -- suggest that Lavabit shut down in protest at the U.S. government's pursuit of the former National Security Agency systems analyst.<br><br>Levison wrote that his legal fight to bring back Lavabit as a U.S. company will continue with an appeal. Until then, he had some advice for his 350,000 former customers. <br></div><div><p><i>"This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."</i></p></div><div>Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts downRemember when word circulated that Edward Snowden was using Lavabit, an email service that purports to provide better privacy and securit...</div><div>Snowden's link to Lavabit was established by Russian human rights campaigner Tanya Lokshin. In <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tanya.lokshina/posts/515881045133478" class="">a Facebook post hours before she met Snowden</a> at a Moscow airport last month, Lokshin said he had contacted her using a Lavabit email address.<br></div><div>Ed Snowden's e-mail provider Lavabit abruptly shuts down after a secret 6-week court battle that it can't discuss http://bit.ly/149zsuGKevin Poulsen</div><div>Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the Snowden stories, reported on the shutdown and contacted Snowden for reaction. Snowden told Greenwald he thought Lavabit's actions were "inspiring." <br></div><div>On the self-shutdown of Snowden's email service Lavabit to avoid US survillance - with reaction from Snowden: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/09/lavabit-shutdown-snowden-silicon-valleyGlenn Greenwald</div><div>In an email, Snowden went on to say: <br></div><div><i>"America cannot succeed as a country where individuals like Mr. Levison have to relocate their businesses abroad to be successful. Employees and leaders at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and the rest of our internet titans must ask themselves why they aren't fighting for our interests the same way small businesses are."</i></div><div>Observers on Twitter, including academics studying journalism, privacy and digital law, reacted to the abrupt closure of the anonymous, encrypted email service. <br></div><div>Lavabit just got shut down in the wake of Snowden. The letter from the owner is stunning. http://boingboing.net/2013/08/08/lavabit-email-service-snowden.htmlTim Stevens</div><div>If this doesn't freak you out, you're unfreakable. http://goo.gl/uMyHkoJay Rosen </div><div>Give Me Complicity or Give Me Death: #Lavabit Chooses Death: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/08/give-me-complicity-or-give-me-death-lavabit-chooses-death A quick blog post on what this company's fight means.jennifer granick</div><div>Another company, Silent Circle, who had offered a similar secure email service also decided to shut it down, saying the Lavabit decision allowed them to "see the writing the wall."</div><div>We made the business decision to end our Silent Mail Service - See our Blog post by CTO Jon Callas for more details http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/to-our-customers/Silent Circle</div><div>I can tell a hawk from a handsaw. http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/to-our-customers/Jon Callas</div><div>Some people on Twitter and on Lavabit's Facebook page heaped praise on Silent Circle and Lavabit owner Levision for their stand. <br></div><div>Lavabit and Silent Circle's extraordinary behavior demonstrate not only their principles, but that they understand the business they're in.matt blaze</div><div>Lavabit owner/operator Ladar Levison is another hero, "Snowden's e-mail provider is closing, cannot legally say why" http://wapo.st/17BV9WkNaomi Wolf</div><div> I hope you can get back online. You will have MANY new customers then! Thanks for sacrificing so much and for being a real patriot!Alexander Schubert</div><div> I hope you can get back online. You will have MANY new customers then! Thanks for sacrificing so much and for being a real patriot!Alexander Schubert</div><div>It would be awesome if more US companies would stick up for the user's privacy rights like Lavabit.Kevin Mitnick</div><div> Pity for the loss of the excellent service, but with the deepest respect.Wim Moto</div><div> Thanks for standing up to the thugs, Ladar. I hope to see Lavabit operating again soon, from offshore. It may be awhile before we can liberate the US.Thomas L. Knapp</div><div>But many of Lavabit's customers were not happy, but most blamed the government, not Levison. <br></div><div>Damn. I just got my lavabit address yesterday. :( http://boingboing.net/2013/08/08/lavabit-email-service-snowden.htmlDavid Huerta</div><div>stoopid gvmt forced the hand of my email provider... everyone should be APPALLED by this!!!!! #lavabit https://lavabit.com/Jen</div><div>So Snowden used Lavabit and now the rest of us lose all our emails as my fave ever email provider shuts down. Big thanks to the free West!Andy Page</div><div> I just need my emails, too. Is there any way to get an archive of my account?Luis Arturo</div><div>No seriously, this Lavabit thing sucks. I remember when I could reach my email account. #thanksNSATrevor Nelson</div><div> It is okay to shut down but there should be at LEAST one month's noticeIsak Andersson</div><div> To those complaining that you've lost your data, next time you choose an email provider, make some damn backups. Lavabit has shown great integrity in a very difficult situation.Andy Willis</div><div><i>(With files from the Associated Press)</i><br></div>
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