[Cryptography] Motherboard article on Lavabit case

[Ladar Levison]

On 3/18/2016 5:03 PM, Henry Baker wrote:
> FYI --
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> https://motherboard.vice.com/read/lavabit-snowden-forgotten-encryption-fight-looms-over-the-apple-fbi-case
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> On June 9, 2013, a then-unknown intelligence contractor named Edward Snowden revealed himself to be the source behind a series of explosive scoops based on top secret National Security Agency documents. The next day, a secret court in Virginia ordered the owner of a small email provider in Texas to help investigators surveil Snowden’s email communications. 
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> That order set off a long legal fight that was mostly shrouded in complete secrecy for two months, until Ladar Levison, the owner of the email provider called Lavabit, decided to shut down his service rather than “become complicit in crimes against the American people,” as he put it at the time. 
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> ...

I haven't read the motherboard version yet, but here's the Wired
version. It's mostly accurate, although it leaves off a lot of details.
Like most recounts of the adventure, it doesn't all fit into a story of
1,000 words or less.

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/lavabit-apple-fbi/

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