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Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down
Remember when word circulated that Edward Snowden was using Lavabit, an email service that purports to provide better privacy and security for users than popular web-based free services like Gmail? Lavabit's owner has shut down the service, and posted a message on the lavabit.com home page today about wanting to avoid "being complicit in crimes against the American people."
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This is getting crazier and crazier every day... scary.
So basically he shut it down because he didn't want to deal with the government setting up tracking devices on his service?
In a nutshell yes.
Added a link to my snap which is an article about a 2nd email service shutting down. Cheers!
I mean related link.