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Also said "I'm not showing up to court unless you pay me to" - pg. 41

Grand jury subpoena guarantees he would be paid for travel but that subpoena was later withdrawn

Well, except that as I recall, Lavabit didn't use SSL with PFS, so giving the FBI their SSL keys means that all previously-captured ciphertext is decodable.

Certainly the FBI could have used some simple OCR to import the key...

Some of the text was so small the FBI said it was illegible (in their view). Even a single digit wrong would render the entire key useless (B != 8)

Why do that when you can just throw it at some poor junior employee to transcribe?