Thursday, 3. October 2013

Lavabit Founder Waged Privacy Fight as F.B.I. Pursued Snowden


One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent’s business card on his Dallas doorstep. So began a four-month tangle with law enforcement officials that would end with Mr. Levison’s shutting the business he had spent a decade building and becoming an unlikely hero of privacy advocates in their escalating battle with the government over Internet security.

nytimes.com

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