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The San Francisco nonprofit will announce on Thursday night that all of its users' communications will be automatically encrypted.
"The move to supernodes was not intended to facilitate greater law enforcement access to our users' communications," Mr. Gillett wrote.
Mr. Levison said he set up Lavabit to make it impossible for outsiders, whether governments or hackers, to spy on users' communications.
Mr Snowden's revelations about the extent of Western surveillance have persuaded many information-technology firms including Google and Apple to begin encrypting their users' communications.
The Microsoft-owned internet chat company could potentially face criminal and administrative sanctions, including a ban on passing users' communications covertly to the US signals intelligence agency.
Companies are legally obliged to comply with requests for users' communications under US law, but the Prism program allows the intelligence services direct access to the companies' servers.
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He followed the government's own secure coding guidelines, based on the N.S.A.'s technical guidance, and engineered his systems so as not to log user communications.
The Guardian reports that GCHQ has been able to see user communications data from the American internet companies, because it had access to Prism.
Even if Twitter is compromised or compelled by a government to disclose its private keys, user communications that were intercepted on the wire will remain safe".
It comes as many US law enforcement officials, including the FBI director, James Comey, have pressed tech companies to make sure they can access user communications even if they are encrypted as they travel the internet.
This is because the insertion of backdoors in a software product, particularly those that can be used to obtain unencrypted user communications or data, significantly increases the difficulty of designing a secure product".
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