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Hack Lab: Introduction to Cybersecurity (INTLPOL 268) - Fall 2023

United States v. Lavabit, LLC (4th Cir. 2014)

Here is a redacted Word document, in which I’ve made the same elisions as I’ve made in the text below (to take out the parts of the case that you don’t need to read). Here is the full, unredacted opinion.

For an explanation of this court opinion that was written for a lay audience, see this article, which discusses the "Apple vs. FBI" court order (also part of your reading) into the context of this Lavabit case. Comparing "Apple vs. FBI" to Lavabit illustrates the FBI's history of going to court to try to force tech companies to circumvent their own encryption in order to enable FBI access to the plaintext of a target individual's encrypted information.