Ladar Levison, founder of secure email provider Lavabit, has opened up about why he shut down his email encryption service
abruptly over the summer. In August, Levison shut down the service only revealing that government pressure had led to the closure. He finally gave more color this this in a Facebook post this
week. "During an investigation into several Lavabit user accounts, the federal government demanded both unfettered access to all user communications and a copy of the Lavabit
encryption keys used to secure web, instant message and email traffic," she said.Read the whole story at TechCrunch »
