In Lavabit Appeal, U.S. Doubles Down on Access to Web Crypto Keys

A U.S. email provider can promise its users all the security and privacy it wants; it still has to do whatever it takes to give the government access.

That’s the gist of the Justice Department’s 60-page appellate brief in the Lavabit surveillance case, filed today in the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.