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Snowden Finally Identified As Target of Investigation That Ended Lavabit (washingtontimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Times: Three years after a government investigation forced the shuttering of Lavabit, a Texas-based email provider, its CEO revealed Friday that an account belonging to Edward Snowden spurred the probe that put his company out of business. "Ladar Levison shut down his encrypted webmail service in August 2013 amid an FBI investigation focused on one of his company's nearly half-a-million customers," reports The Washington Times. "A gag-order that has just recently been vacated in federal has legally prevented him up until now from confirming the account in question was registered to none other than the NSA contractor attributed with one of the largest intelligence leaks in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton nullified the mandatory non-disclosure orders in a June 13 court filing that went unnoticed until Lavabit released a statement Friday. Officially, the consent order approved by Judge Hilton in the Eastern District of Virginia earlier this month removes all gag-orders concerning Lavabit and Mr. Levison with regards to a grand jury investigation that led the FBI to Mr. Snowdenâ(TM)s email account. 'While Iâ(TM)m pleased that I can finally speak freely about the target of the investigation, I also know the fight to protect our collective freedom is far from over,' Mr. Levison said in a statement. He said he plans to discuss the case further during the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas this summer."
I think there are two kinds of apostrophes, one that's at an angle and looks nice and the plain old upright one. When someone pastes the former from another site into slashcode it screws it up rather than simply substituting the latter.
Of course the editors could replace them manually, but to do that they'd have to notice, which means they'd have to use the preview.
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About this bit which came out in March 2016
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/government-error-just-revealed-snowden-target-lavabit-case/
I did a quick Google search but didn't come across the same Slashdot link and I'm too lazy to spend more than 2 seconds looking, sorry.
And here I thought they revealed it was snowden back in march.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Well unless there happened to be another unrelated Ed_snowden@lavabit.com
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Title says it all. Bastards. PJ had to shut down one of the best sites on the net over this.
Why guess when you can know? Measure!