Lavabit Founder Ladar Levison Plots the Route

Leeb's Market Forecast ^ | Novmeber 15, 2013 | Stella Paul

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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt recently publicly protested alleged U.S. government spying on Google data centers.

“The NSA allegedly collected the phone records of 320 million people in order to identify roughly 300 people who might be a risk," he said.

The massive Government Matrix invasion of privacy only emphasizes the dramatic actions of 32-year-old Lavabit founder Ladar Levison. In August, rather than give the government the key to unlock the content of his 400,000 paying subscribers, Levison pulled the plug on the encrypted email service he spent ten years to build. “All this information is being compiled, archived, indexed and searched,” said Levison.

Apparently, in its search for evidence on Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor and leaker of classified information exposing mass government surveillance, the government wanted Levison to hand over his encryption key. Levison said he had previously cooperated with multiple criminal probes and this time, offered to turn over Snowden’s information.

The government, however, insisted on obtaining total access...

He suspended operations, and wrote on his website: “I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit.”

Now embroiled in his own court case, funded by donations to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund, Levison is using the Kickstarter social media site to capitalize Dark Mail Alliance, a next-generation encrypted private email service.

If Levison loses, he plans to turn over Lavabit “lock, stock, and barrel” to someone in a country with more privacy protection laws than the U.S.

Regardless of what happens, however, Levison intends to continue fighting the Government Matrix. “If there’s anyplace in the world where we should be able to communicate freely, it’s America,” Levison said.

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The article looks at the Government Matrix we're all trapped in, secretly coming at us on prime-time television, the news, and through our computers.

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Levison's kickstarter for Dark Mail got off to a good start but, unfortunately, it's slowed down and he's only half way there with 8 days to go.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative

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The Roe decision distanced conservatives from privacy and hurt our nation across the board.