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Any news, insight or updates on why it is unmaintained anymore?

That always seems a bit shady and suspicious

This all happened when the Snowden leaks were coming out. I always assumed that they were served with some type of National Security court orders, papers, threats whatever the Govt sends out.

Similar to what happened with lavabit. I doubt the devs did anything, more likely they were asked to do something they felt was shady. They could've seen the storm that was brewing on the horizon.

> I doubt the devs did anything

The best course of action was to do nothing, given they couldn't talk about it if they were served. Walking away was the only option.

This is pure speculation. Logical, but still speculation.

Alternatively, since accusations of being NSA sympathizer were getting tossed around pretty freely, maybe they didn't want to find themselves on the wrong end of a witch hunt.

To the contrary. It was nearly a miracle that it was maintained as long as it was, considering how underappreciated the developers were.

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