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Sad closure of Lavabit

2016-11-21

Categories: security  
Tags: security  

This is unfortunate. Lavabit got closed down because the FBI demanded that they have the private encryption keys, yet the owner refused to give them full-access to all the accounts. This was merely to chase evidence after Edward Snowden. So, rather than complying, the site owner decided to shut down.

20161120/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit