[batemanesque]

the other aspect is that despite the whole reason for Lavabit's popularity in recent years being NSA stuff etc, their site freely admitted that they couldn't refuse to fulfil legal government data requests, but that users shouldn't be worried because that would only apply in the case of criminal behavior. which bizarrely, is the same justification many NSA-overreach supports use: "if you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about."...

also, I always found it slightly dishonest that the free tier they used to provide featured no special encryption, given that their stated reason for existence is to provide secure communication