- Nov 5, 2011
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Snowden’s Email Provider Lavabit Loses Contempt of Court Appeal : on thewhir.com : http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/snowdens-email-provider-lavabit-loses-contempt-court-appeal
A federal appeals court upheld a contempt of court citation Wednesday against Ladar Levison, the founder of the shuttered email service provider Lavabit, for refusing to hand over encryption keys to the FBI.
Levison founded Lavabit in 2004, and the company gained attention last year as the email service provider of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. It is still not confirmed whether the FBI was looking to snoop on Snowden’s email with the request, though court filings strongly suggest that that was the intent, according to a report by Wired.
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A federal appeals court upheld a contempt of court citation Wednesday against Ladar Levison, the founder of the shuttered email service provider Lavabit, for refusing to hand over encryption keys to the FBI.
Levison founded Lavabit in 2004, and the company gained attention last year as the email service provider of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. It is still not confirmed whether the FBI was looking to snoop on Snowden’s email with the request, though court filings strongly suggest that that was the intent, according to a report by Wired.
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