Lavabit, an e-mail service prized for its security, went dark yesterday. In a cryptic statement posted on the Web site, the services owner and operator, Ladar Levison, wrote, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests. Those experiences led him to shut down the service rather than, as he put it, become complicit in crimes against the American people”]
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