After Lavabit shutdown, another encrypted e-mail service closes

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by Joe Mullin - Aug 9 2013, 1:20am CDT

Less than 24 hours after Lavabit shuttered its doors, another US firm is shutting down its encrypted e-mail service.

Silent Circle, a company that specializes in encrypted communications, said it is preemptively turning off its Silent Mail product. It's doing so despite no urging at all from the government—no subpoenas, warrants, security letters, or anything else, company co-founder Jon Callas wrote in a blog post today. "We see the writing on the wall, and we have decided that it is best for us to shut down Silent Mail now."

"We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope you understand that if we dithered, it could be more inconvenient," he concludes.

Company CEO Michael Janke told TechCrunch that given his user base, he knew the government was going to come after them sooner or later: ......

 

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This REALLY REALLY SUCKS!!!
I never heard of this company, but our freedom is being taken away drip by drip.

Cameras all over the place, all forms of internet communications data gathered, phone calls data collected, cant spend the little monies I have whern and where I want, if i want to spend it on a hooker have to travel to Vegas, want to smoke some pot have to go to West Coast, I am forced to buy health ins else I get fined, if I publicly disagree with the govt, the IRS comes knocking on my door When does this all end?

Up until a few years ago I could say this was the greatest country in the universe, but now we are not too different from Cuba, Russia Saudia Arabia China etc etc
Geesh!!!
My weekly RANT!!

I wonder if the US govt ask casinomeister to give info on posters here if he is compelled to even under a subponea? Isnt this a German site. Would Merkel force CM to comply?

 

[Mousey]

It's really a shame, as I think all email providers should at least offer the option to send particular emails encrypted -- like when we have to send a hacker's treasure trove of docs and ID copies to casinos.

The only reason -ONLY- reason these encrypted email providers are targeted by the US gov is because the gov wants to see what we're sending and to whom.