Lavabit is an open-source encrypted webmail service, founded in 2004. The service suspended its operations on August 8, 2013, after the U.S. Federal Government ordered it to turn over its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) private keys , in order to allow the government to spy on Edward Snowden 's email.

2013年10月7日 · Lavabit was used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. And in August, as the FBI pursued those leaks, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison shut down his company.

2013年8月9日 · Lavabit users reacted with consumer vitriol on the company’s Facebook page (“What about our emails?”), but the tide quickly turned toward government critique.

2013年11月12日 · Lavabit announced today that it would shut down its encrypted email service rather than “become complicit in crimes against the American people.” Lavabit did not say what it had been asked to do, only that it was legally prohibited from sharing the …

2013年8月8日 · “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,” Levison ...

2013年10月3日 · The documents show that the US government sought to force Lavabit to install a "pen register and the use of a trap and trace device" on a particular email account.

2013年8月9日 · Based in Texas, Lavabit attracted attention last month when NSA leaker Edward Snowden used an e-mail account with the service to invite human rights workers and lawyers to a press conference in...

2013年10月7日 · On August 8th, Lavabit, newly famous for being the secure e-mail service used by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, went dark.

2013年8月9日 · Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users.

2013年8月10日 · It’s been a few days since Lavabit, the secure email service used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, shut down to avoid “crimes against the American people.” Founder Ladar Levison’s initial ...