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> The problem here is Lavabit was specifically designed to disallow lawful intercepts of individuals.

The problem is that computer-mediated communication systems are not able to distinguish between lawful intercepts and unlawful intercepts and thus their security against unlawful intercept is premised on being able to guard against all types of interception, lawful or otherwise.




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