*Email service used by Snowden shuts itself down, warns against using US-based companies* / //Edward Snowden: 'Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and the rest of our internet titans must ask themselves why they aren't fighting for our interests the same way'/ Glenn Greenwald theguardian.com, Friday 9 August 2013 13.19 BST A Texas-based encrypted email service recently revealed <http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/russia/130712/edward-...> to be used by Edward Snowden <http://www.theguardian.com/world/edward-snowden> - Lavabit - announced yesterday it was shutting itself down <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/08/lavabit-email-shut-down-ed...> in order to avoid complying with what it perceives as unjust secret US court orders to provide government access to its users' content. "After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations," the company's founder, Ladar Levinson, wrote in a statement <http://lavabit.com/> to users posted on the front page of its website. He said the US directive forced on his company "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." He chose the latter. [...] Continua qui: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/09/lavabit-shutdown-snowde...