Lavabit founder confirms feds' Snowden spy efforts led to encrypted email service shutdown
Lavabit founder Ladar Levison last week confirmed what had been an open secret: That he shuttered his encrypted email service in 2013 because of the federal government's pursuit of former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.
In a statement issued June 24, Levison said that the gag order that had enforced his silence had been lifted. "After three years, and five separate attempts, the federal judge overseeing the case has granted Mr. Levison permission to speak freely about [the] investigation," the statement read.
On June 13, U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton unsealed a trove of case documents and simultaneously removed the gag order. "All non-disclosure orders applying to Mr. Ladar Levison and Lavabit, LLC in the above captioned matter are vacated," Hilton wrote in an order two weeks ago.
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