[gentoomenpls]

The warrant that was given to him only asked for the ssl keys.

The court records were just unseal on October 2nd.

>He could have done this a while ago, but he didn't.

Maybe he's been working on it since the 2nd?

>He could have relaunched fully, under a new entity, but he didn't.

Why would that change anything? This would only serve to hurt his existing customers.

>He chose NOW, to relaunch for only 72 hours. Why?

Again, maybe he's been working on it since the 2nd?

[throwit1979]

Well, it's certainly possible, but I'd like to point out one thing. IANAL, but I've been through enough to know that courts will often/always consider the aspect of compliance known as "good faith". It's almost certain that handing over the key and them immediately changing it would be seen by the presiding judge as compliance in bad faith, and would put him in a substantially worse position with regard to possible contempt. Given this, unless Levison is legally suicidal, I think it's a fair bet that any relaunch using a new key pair was done, at the very least, with the blessing of the feds and/or the judge. And I can only think of one reason the feds would give such a blessing.