Silent Circle follows Lavabit's precedent and shuts down encrypted mail service

08/09/2013 - 00:00


By Josh Constine | @joshconstine -

“We knew USG would come after us”. That’s why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service. It hadn’t been told to provide data to the government, but after Lavabit shut down today rather than be “complicit” with NSA spying, Silent Circle told customers it has killed off Silent Mail rather than risk their privacy.

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