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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by MagicWishMonkey on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:48PM (#6183641)
The feds wanted to install a prism device on his network, not sure if he shut everything down to prevent that from happening or if there are other factors at play.

The guy who runs the service is one of my best friends. He's the kind of guy who would burn the server farm to the ground before he did something that violated the terms dictated in his privacy policy.

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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by jlgaddis on Friday August 09, 2013 @10:41PM (#6189874)
If true, you probably shouldn't put these details here (especially mentioning that he's one of your best friends).

I was curious to know, of course, but I'm afraid that this could somehow be used against him later.

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