An email provider reportedly used by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden shut down on Thursday, citing an ongoing court battle that it could not discuss.
Lavabit, which launched in 2004, specialized in providing a high-security email service that employed advanced encryption. It was designed to thwart the kind of surveillance techniques that Snowden revealed in June were used by the U.S. government.
Snowden used a Lavabit email address to invite people to a press conference at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on July 12, according to a report from the international wire service Global Post.
Lavabit founder Ladar Levison wrote that he couldn't describe the legal machinations under way. "As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests," he wrote in a front-page notice on his website.
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