Popular Mechanics has an interview with Ladar Levison, "...the owner of the encrypted email startup Lavabit. After Edward Snowden’s NSA document leaks last summer, Levison rebuffed government demands to hand over the email service’s private encryption keys—opting to shut it down instead. He spoke with Popular Mechanics about his new project Dark Mail, online privacy, and how encrypting our email helps disassemble today’s unconstitutional surveillance networks."

According ot Levison, "...One of our most basic rights as American citizens, as people, is the privacy of our papers—our thoughts in written form.

"...By encrypting our email, we force a potential attacker to break into our devices if they want to read our private messages. That changes the game. Instead of sweeping up everyone’s communications wholesale, without much incremental effort, we force them to pick and choose specific targets. And this would be a huge step towards making unconstitutional surveillance obsolete."

Read the brief interview and learn more about Dark Mail here.

Deb Gaber