Lavabit Loses Contempt Appeal

After being forced to turn over encryption keys (being held in contempt of court for several weeks after initially refusing to comply), secure mail provider halted all operations last year. With the assistance of the EFF, an appeal was mounted. Today, the appeals court affirmed the district court decision and rejected the appeal. From Techdirt: "The ruling does a decent job explaining the history of the case, which also details some of the (many, many) procedural mistakes that Lavabit made along...