NO EMAIL IS SAFE - Ladar Levison and Lavabit

We sit down with Levison, founder of Lavabit - an encrypted email service that was created to keep emails completely private and protected. If you haven't heard of Lavabit, or Levison then you've certainly heard of Lavabit's most famous user - Edward Snowden. America's notorious whistleblower used Lavabit to invite reporters to Moscow, which caught the attention of the Feds. Within six weeks, Levision, who'd been working on Lavabit for nearly a decade, shut the service down because the American Government wanted him to hand over the SSL key - essentially pulling the veil back on his 400k customer's data.

We first met Ladar on his way to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge their decision that forced him to turn over the SSL key. Levison feels very strongly that the demand to turn over encryption keys exceeds the government's authority under so-called "pen register" and "trap and trace" statutes.

UPDATE: Levison has lost his appeal. As Politico reports: "the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said email provider Lavabit LLC and owner Ladar Levison failed to present to a district court their key arguments against the government's tactics seeking encryption keys and information about one of the firm's customers."

Sources:
Missle "

[pLaCiDMoOoN]

Bless Ladar Levison for standing up to the BEAST.

[MIilluminati]

I agree ! We deserve better in this world; specially in the USA .

[monchyp]

this channel deserves more subscribers

[joenathan]

The word federal is pertaining to a contract(s). They govern only contractual agreements on the public side. To be subject to them and claim privacy is an oxy moron. This is why we don't have standing & why they can survey all comms. it's not all their fault we the people stopped administering to them and they had to pick up Americans slack so yeah, they are doing what is right. the gov are public law and we are supposed to be private but people forgot how to do that.