Lavabit.com owner: 'I could be arrested' for resisting surveillance order
Found on NBC News on Saturday, 17 August 2013
The owner of an encrypted email service used by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden said he has been threatened with criminal charges for refusing to comply with a secret surveillance order to turn over information about his customers.
Levison stressed that he has complied with "upwards of two dozen court orders" for information in the past that were targeted at "specific users" and that "I never had a problem with that." But without disclosing details, he suggested that the order he received more recently was markedly different, requiring him to cooperate in broadly based surveillance that would scoop up information about all the users of his service.
Now that the government sues him for violating a secret gag order it's not secret anymore. Levison might as well let the cat out of the bag and publish every single detail about the order he received.