UPDATE: On Tuesday, August 13, Ladar Levison made his first public appearance since he announced the shut down of Lavabit. In a 20-minute interview with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, ...

Lavabit, the private email service that shut down last year after a court order called for its private SSL (secure socket layer) keys, will make its case Tuesday before a U.S. federal appeals court.

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 ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a contempt of court ruling against Ladar Levison and his now-defunct encrypted e-mail service provider, Lavabit LLC, for hindering the government’s ...

A U.S. email provider can promise its users all the security and privacy it wants; it still has to do whatever it takes to give the government access. That’s the gist of the Justice Department’s ...

"Let me put it this way: If one year from now, you're not using Dark Mail, it's because you enjoy knowing the NSA is reading your emails," says Ladar Levison, founder of Lavabit, the email provider ...

So it’s hard to know what’s at work inside that brain. “He is so utterly the person he appears to be,” Lewis says. “It’s just that it takes you years to find out all the things he’s involved in.” ...

Lavabit, the encrypted email provider Edward Snowden favored, has risen from the ashes with more security features than before. If you'll recall, company chief Ladar Levison shut it down in 2013 ...

Lavabit, the privacy-centric email provider Edward Snowden reportedly used, is set to make a comeback. Ladar Levison made headlines two years ago when he unexpectedly shut down the encrypted email ...

Moxie Marlinspike is a cryptographer, software developer, and security researcher who regularly appears at the Black Hat security conferences. His critique of HTTPS Web encryption has led browser ...

After Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks from last year, rumors circulated that Snowden used Lavabit, which at the time was a hugely popular secure email service. Soon after that, Lavabit founder Ladar ...

Email service provider Lavabit famously (in tech security circles anyway) shut its doors and turned itself off back in 2013. Its owner, Ladar Levison, explained that he was doing so to keep from ...