I've posted this link on HN before, but it's potentially relevant - we might find out more, but it sounds like this might be the result of a National Security L

I've posted this link on HN before, but it's potentially relevant - we might find out more, but it sounds like this might be the result of a National Security Letter preventing Ladar from talking about the reason behind the shutdown. I would suspect he has tried to protect his users from a request for information (NSLs are allegedly limited to metadata), but would prefer to discontinue the service than take the other possible legal action (silently disclosing information). Perhaps it is possible he will/has been forced to disclose information anyway. This link is a video featuring Nicholas Merrill who (if this is in fact NSL-related) went through a similar situation with his ISP Calyx, and gave as much information as legally possible about the frustrating process as a talk at the yearly Chaos Communication Congress in 2010. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4263.en.html https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4263.en....