All your good private email options are shutting down
Can anyone send an email that's safe from the National Security
Agency's prying eyes?  In the immediate aftermath of reports
that the NSA actually scans practically every email in the
world—even if it's an American one, though President Obama has
repeatedly said there's no domestic surveillance program—three
major email encryption services have shut their doors.  "Right
now, there are no good options, only compromises," Eva Galperin,
Global Policy Analyst at the EFF, told the Daily Dot.  The first
was Lavabit, the preferred service of former NSA contractor
Edward Snowden, whose leaks started the recent conversation
about NSA spy programs in the first place. Lavabit's owner,
Ladar Levison, left the site with a sad, slightly cryptic letter
implying that the U.S. government was insisting he turn over
certain information about his users' communications. He didn't
give specifics, but said, "I wish that I could legally share
with you the events that led to my