lavabit encrypted email service forced to shut down

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Politics aside, there are many related technical issues that have been conspicuously ignored...

Jimaz, I appreciate your insight into encryption. You are even making a good case for personal responsibility in that one has some responsibility to lock doors and take other security precautions in other matters of life. Such precautions help keep intruders out. Lavabit was one such precaution but it was the politics of the Bush and Obama administrations that created much of the need for encryption and eventually forced lavabit out of operation.