Ladar Levison, the founder of the now shuttered email encryption firm Lavabit, has penned a piece for The Guardian explaining how the FBI and the US legal system prevented him from
supplying truly private emails. In the piece, he details his legal battle with these government agencies, which led to the shutdown of his company. "I had a hard decision to make," he
wrote. "I had not devoted 10 years of my life to building Lavabit, only to become complicit in a plan which I felt would have involved the wholesale violation of my customers' right to privacy. Thus
with no alternative, the decision was obvious: I had to shut down my company."Read the whole story at The Guardian »
