Ladar Levison (Lavabit)

Aug 25, 2014, 10:30 PM – Aug 26, 2014, 1:30 AM (UTC)

Dallas

The Dallas Entrepreneur Center, 311 North Market St, Floor 2, Dallas, 75202

Ladar Levison ran the email service used by Edward Snowden, the infamous leaker of National Security Agency secrets. Mr. Levison founded Nerdshack, LLC; a company dedicated to providing free and anonymous email service. Over the next ten years, Mr. Levison expanded and renamed the company Lavabit, LLC. As of August 2013, Lavabit had expanded to be an email service for over 400,000 users.

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About this event

Ladar Levison was born and raised in San Francisco, California. After graduating from Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, he attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas. In the wake of the Patriot Act, 2004, Mr. Levison founded Nerdshack, LLC; a company dedicated to providing free and anonymous email service. Over the next ten years, Mr. Levison expanded his business and renamed the company Lavabit, LLC. As of August 2013, Lavabit had expanded to be an email service for over 400,000 users, 100,000 of which paid for Mr. Levison’s services. Levison ran the email service used by Edward Snowden, the infamous leaker of National Security Agency secrets. On August 8, 2013, Mr. Levison made the difficult decision to shut down his business after, in his words, “refusing to be complicit in crimes against the American people.” Now, he balances his work in the technology sector under the Darkmail Alliance with activism and advocacy projects for the protection of internet privacy.

 

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Speaker

  • Ladar Levison

    Lavabit

When

When

August 25 – 26, 2014
10:30 PM – 1:30 AM (UTC)

Agenda

10:30 PMNetworking and Food
11:30 PMFireside Chat
12:30 AMNetworking

Organizer

  • Isioma Orewa

    Parallel Score

    Chapter Director

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