Levison has been caught in a legal nightmare for the past nine months, since he refused to hand over the encryption codes used on his system, a small business built with a promise of a secure system ...

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 ...

While privacy advocates may see Lavabit as bravely defending U.S. privacy rights in the online world, federal judges hearing its appeal of contempt-of-court charges seem to regard the now defunct ...

An email provider reportedly used by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden shut down on Thursday, citing an ongoing court battle that it could not discuss. Lavabit, which launched in 2004, specialized ...

Former users of the Lavabit encrypted email service that was shut down in August are being temporarily allowed to change their passwords and download copies of their data. Lavabit, an email service ...

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 ...

Edward Snowden's email encryption tool of choice Lavabit has been resurrected. Ladar Levison, CEO and owner of Lavabit, relaunched the service on Friday corresponding with the presidential ...

Instead of finding some sort of responsible oversight of the intelligence community working with Lavabit's master key through only an authorized Lavabit personnel and with tons of checks in place to ...

Lavabit, the super secure e-mail service that whistleblower Edward Snowden uses for his electronic communications, has shut-down because it does not want to "become complicit in crimes against ...