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The US Government Has Ordered Email Encryption Services to Stay Open

After email encryption service Lavabit's founder shut his service down rather than turn over the encryption keys to the federal government, the government has ordered other secure webmail providers who have threatened to shut themselves down to stay open. Ladar Levison revealed this news during a recent Reddit AMA Q&A chat. "When I was deciding whether to shut down the decision really boiled down to whether users would prefer to have their emails secretly snooped, or simply lose their service altogether," he explained during the chat. "Since the court prevented me from telling anyone the situation, I had to make that choice for everyone. I had to decide on behalf of everyone without the benefit of their feedback. In the end I chose to shut down."

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