On: Lavabit to Briefly Reinstate Services for Data Recovery

[lurkinggrue]

Wait! Didn't he erase the servers? Wasn't that the point?

<Akbar> It's a Trap! </Akbar>

[inigoesdr → lurkinggrue]

If he had erased them he wouldn't have needed to give up the encryption key and he wouldn't have had as much of a problem giving it up unless he used it elsewhere.

[Karunamon → inigoesdr]

I'd assume that the bad guys with guns would have attempted to spin that into a "destruction of evidence" charge or similar too.