Former advisor to the National Security Agency (NSA) by Edward Snowden allegedly used during his flight to Moscow (Russia). Two encrypted messaging services and Lavabit Silent Circle were closed by their owners, Friday, August 9. They justified this decision enigmatic statements, implying that they wanted to avoid in the future to respond to requests from the U.S. government.
"Such decisions, closing a legitimate rather than comply with a request for information from the state, is very rare in the United States, including unprecedented activity," said the lawyer Electronic Freedom Foundation's Kurt Opsahl .
Lavabit: not "become complicit in crimes against the American people"
Lavabit launched from Texas is almost ten years, was closed on Thursday for his owner, Ladar Levison, without detailed explanations.
"I was forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the people of the United States or abandon almost ten years of hard work by closing Lavabit" says Levison Ladar in a last message posted on its website. "After careful consideration, I have decided to suspend operations," he adds.
However, the owner seems to suggest not to give more justification for this sudden closure. "In the current state of things, I can not tell what happened to me these past six weeks, though I twice made the necessary applications," he wrote in the letter. The Department of Justice has, in turn, made no comment.
Silent Circle: "We have received allocation"
The next day, a second encrypted email service, Silent Circle, has made the same decision: "We have decided that it is better for us to close Silent Mail now we have not received a subpoena, court order or anything. Ever of any government, and that is why we act now, "writes Jon Callas, their leader. "Prevention is better than cure," he says.
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