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Edward Snowden’s E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show
By Kevin Poulsen
10.02.13
5:27 PM
... U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan .. ordered Lavabit to comply, threatening Levison with criminal contempt ...
By July 9 .. prosecutors asked for .. Levison, to be held in contempt “for its disobedience and resistance to these lawful orders.”
A week later, prosecutors upped the ante ...
In an interesting work-around, Levison complied .. by turning over .. an 11 page printout in 4-point type. The government, not unreasonably, called the printout “illegible” ...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/