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"Lavabit abruptly shuts down" [0]

The original poster believes that this case is apparently the reason for Lavabit shutting down. The issue as hand is that a proper search warrant has been issued for the email address in the title. Lavabit appears to have chosen to shut down rather than respond to the search warrant (or has responded to the search warrant, but chosen to shut down rather than have it happen again)

[0] - http://lavabit.com/




The warrant shown on Cryptome is from an earlier case in which Lavabit complied. Lavabit has received something much different in this current case, which is what led to the shut down.


Indeed. I missed the section where it showed that the warrant was executed, and "One Memorex DVD" was retrieved.




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