LONDON - A Texas-based email service reportedly used by National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden said it was shutting down Thursday, explaining in a cryptic message that it would rather ...

A Lavabit e a Silent Circle encerraram seus serviços de e-mail criptografados em meio a sugestões de que o governo dos EUA estava exigindo que as empresas sacrificassem a Política de Privacidade de ...

There are quite a few Internet services today advertising absolute privacy from both hackers and government agencies, such as Signal for messaging. After Lavabit's controversial shutdown, ProtonMail ...

The developer behind Lavabit, an email service that noted leaker Edward Snowden used, is releasing source code for an open-source end-to-end encrypted email standard that promises surveillance-proof ...

There was never any official evidence that Edward Snowden was the target when the federal government was investigating Lavabit — but it was obvious, considering it was known that Snowden was using the ...

This way, the encrypted form of the message is signed such that anyone who knows the sender's e-mail address can verify it came from them. The question is who should know the sender's e-mail; if the ...

Feds ran roughshod over Lavabit, forcing it to shut down and proving the government is fighting to win -- and fighting dirty -- in the privacy wars The cyber-privacy wars continue, but it still looks ...

On Wednesday, Lavabit, Edward Snowden’s secure email service of choice, lost its appeal against an earlier ruling that found company owner Ladar Levison in contempt of court for refusing to hand over ...

They held him in contempt because rather than provide a legal argument as to why he shouldn't have to turn over the key, he provided the key in a font so tiny as to be unreadable. The judge's response ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a contempt of court citation against an email service provider used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. A three-judge ...

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CIS Director of Civil Liberties Jennifer Granick discusses a recent ruling ordering email provider Lavabit to hand over it's SSL keys to the government and why the NSA could potentially do more with ...