Lavabit and Silent Circle shut down encrypted email services
Lavabit and Silent Circle have both closed down their encrypted email services amid suggestions the US government was demanding the companies sacrifice their customers' privacy. The Lavabit site now features only a statement from its owner and operator Ladar Levison, which begins: "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. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that....
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Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 16th August 2013 - a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host ... John Law. Keeping your secrets in plain sight. If you only feel good about one thing this week, it should be this. By being interested in bitcoin, you're at the epicentre of one of the biggest experiments in personal technology, law, money and human rights this century. Overblown? Hardly. As part of the fall-out from revelations about the extent of state surveillance....
I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States. -Ladar LevisonSecure email providers Lavabit and Silent Circle have taken the heroic steps of shutting down their businesses in order to preserve their integrity. Unfortunately the definition of heroism necessarily implies that their actions are heroic because they are unusual. Their actions surprised us because most companies, when faced between choosing between continued operation and honoring the trust their users have given them, toss integrity aside. Even though....