Lavabit founder Ladar Levison has lost an appeal against a contempt of court ruling in the US for refusing to comply with an FBI order to hand over encryption keys.
The secure email service is thought to have been used by US whistleblower Edward Snowden and founder Levison pulled the plug on it when American security services began requesting access in the wake of the NSA revelations last year.
While he did eventually comply with an FBI order to divulge encryption keys, Levison was found in contempt after initially delivering them on paper in print too small to read.
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Source: The Drum
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