Snowden’s e-mail provider is closing, cannot legally say why

[Raine1967]

7. Went to the owners FB page:

https://www.facebook.com/KingLadar
HE's got a lot of support but there are a few people that are kinda upset that they lost thier email. I'd be pissed too if I paid to have this encryption only to have the owner yank away personal information from its subsribers. Take a look:

Losing FIVE accounts of emails without notice nor recourse is sacrifice enough for me in lieu of donating. Retrieval made possible, and post haste, then I will reconsider. Honorable on one hand, yet to be so disrespectful and rude blindsiding all of us Lavabit clients with this ZERO notice of shut down on the other .... doesn't fly.

The very least you could have done was announce that you were having this issue and were in the process of 'soul searching' a decision to possibly shut Lavabit down so WE could have the chance to retrieve our emails etc and move them before your locking them down and out of reach from US... We that patronized your Lavabit. Gov't wants ability to betray us and our privacy, I don't see your locking down our accounts WITH OUT NOTICE nor any means to salvage our emails etc from off of Lavabit.. OUR ACCOUNTS.

Are you going to solve this issue of leaving us locked out of our accounts?? It wrecks havoc on MANY websites that our accounts are attached too... you must know this so.....

Could you please at least forward the messages for a couple of days to some other e-mail accounts? I can't reset/change the e-mails I used on other websites because they require validation PER EMAIL.

He didn't have to say anything other then "I've decided to shut this site down on x date. Please retrieve all info from your accounts by that date, or else you will not be able to retrieve them after that date. Thank you." Don't tell me the courts told him that he couldn't have done that much. PLZ. We could all be left guessing why he would shut down, but so what, at least we would have had the chance to save our own VERY EXPENSIVE losses due to blindsiding with a shut down without notice. Raging headache, phone ringing off the hook, ANGRY customers, timelines, orders, contacts et al etc. All for 'security' that turns out costing me more then having gone with less secure email. I've been with Lavabit for 8 yrs. Honor vs. Loyalty. Really? ES Tylenol anyone!