Ladar Levison, founder of Lavabit, speaking at a CNET/Electronic Frontier Foundation event in San Francisco on October 28, 2013. With a gag order recently lifted, this was Levison's first opportunity to publicly describe how secret court orders and unconstitutional search warrants demanding Lavabit's SSL key led him to close down the service rather than betray the trust of 400,000 innocent users. When whistleblower Edward Snowden invited human rights groups such as Amnesty International to an event at the Moscow Airport requesting asylum, he had used a lavabit.com email address.
The unedited video captures the first 1/2 hour of Levison's talk.
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