[liberationtech] As F.B.I. Pursued Snowden, an E-Mail Service Stood Firm

[Michael Allan]

DALLAS — One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an
F.B.I. agent’s business card on his Dallas doorstep. So began a
four-month tangle with law enforcement officials that would end with
Mr. Levison’s shutting the business he had spent a decade building and
becoming an unlikely hero of privacy advocates in their escalating
battle with the government over Internet security.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/us/snowdens-e-mail-provider-discusses-pressure-from-fbi-to-disclose-data.html?pagewanted=all