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They're not asking for any particular information that lavabit has now. If they were, shutting down wouldn't be a solution to not handing it over. They are aski

• cdjk 13y ago
  But that additional access would probably include various keys that would let them decrypt previous communication. Maybe the order was to log passwords on login, or something like that, that would allow recovery of the key and decryption of stored data, which may not be possible depending on the original architecture of the system.
• cheald 13y ago
  I know, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that Snowden may be in contact with people that his pursuers are not yet aware of. Tapping his communications would give them a much larger attack surface.