There was more than a personal cost. The staff of Lavabit had no idea what was happening as the servers were being shut-down, until they were told to go home.

There was more than a personal cost. The staff of Lavabit had no idea what was happening as the servers were being shut-down, until they were told to go home. http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showpost.php?p=558661&postcount=93 http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showpost.php?p=558661&postco... I apologize; it was not my intent to mislead (though it appears that I did so inadvertently). I was told that the outage was related to maintenance regarding the storage system from one of the Lavabit admins.