First sentence of the article. >IT’S BEEN ONE of the worst-kept secrets for years: the identity of the person the government was investigating in 2013 when it

First sentence of the article. >IT’S BEEN ONE of the worst-kept secrets for years: the identity of the person the government was investigating in 2013 when it served the secure email firm Lavabit with a court order demanding help spying on a particular customer. We all knew it, but it hadn't been confirmed by the government until now. See [0] for example: >The name of the target is redacted from the unsealed records, but the offenses under investigation are listed as violations of the Espionage Act and theft of government property — the exact charges that have been filed against NSA whistleblower Snowden in the same Virginia court. [0] http://www.wired.com/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/ http://www.wired.com/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/