> I suppose that the boring truth is that Facebook just used it's vast financial resources to protect itself in a way that lavabit never could This is the accu

> I suppose that the boring truth is that Facebook just used it's vast financial resources to protect itself in a way that lavabit never could This is the accurate take :) Facebook, like Google, was very unhappy about the wholesale tapping of cables revealed in the Snowden docs and rapidly moved to encrypt all the things formerly assumed safe/inscrutable. If you give an inch to a government you then have to deal with every other government wanting their inch too. The easiest way to deal with this is to vigorously fight every request from a government. You can't do a secret backdoor that bypasses this because it will get discovered eventually and then same problem occurs.