Two prominent
email services shut down amid the government's scrutiny, rather than fight.
Not exact matches
Lavabit has been fighting the government, but another company, Silent Circle, was not and it
shut down its
email service anyway.
Two prominent secure
email services have
shut down, apparently under pressure from the federal government.
In a statement on the site, founder Pamela Jones cited the move by Lavabit founder Ladar Levinson to
shut down his encrypted
email service because of a legal fight with the government.
The
service is indiscriminantly
shutting down accounts, including journalists who cover the technology industry and may use
email to refer to blockchain tech and ICOs.
The real expense to the publishers would be in encouraging customers to go to a lot of work (signing up for a direct purchase account, providing their private send - to Kindle
email and then telling Amazon it's okay to accept
emails from the publisher) only to have the
service likely be discontinued due to lack of interest OR if it is somehow miraculously a success, have Amazon
shut it down for them.
The US General
Services Administration says it will be moving some of its 17,000 employees away from BlackBerrys, but has no plans to
shut down its RIM
email and data servers.
However, the free
email services will
shut down addresses being used for illegitimate activities.
A free
service started by two Harvard Law School students that allows users to unsend and edit
emails after they've been sent is apparently
shutting down.
A late update: in the discussion of
shutting down web sites and
email services, several people recommended «mykolab.com», which includes a web client.