Ladar Levison, the owner of the encrypted email service Lavabit,
spoke to Democracy
Now about why he closed his company. In the interview, he revealed that government pressure led to his decision to close the service. Whistleblower Edward Snowden reportedly used the service
and according to Levison, the platform was designed so that even he could not access the private communications of its users. "I felt that in the end I had to pick between the lesser of two evils and
that shutting down the service, if it was no longer secure, was the better option," he told Democracy Now. "It was, in effect, the lesser of the two evils."
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