By July 9, Lavabit still hadn’t defeated its security for the government, and prosecutors asked for a summons to be served for Lavabit, and founder Ladar Levison, to be held in contempt “for its disobedience and resistance to these lawful orders.”

In an interesting work-around, Levison complied the next day by turning over the private SSL keys as an 11 page printout in 4-point type. The government, not unreasonably, called the printout “illegible.”

“To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2,560 characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the FBI collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data,” prosecutors wrote

this one is pretty good. lavabit was securing snowdens emails (and about a half million other peoples), and of course the gubberment wants access to the entire network.

appeals are ongoing, but it appears the NSA has legal authority to break anyones privacy for no reason at all.

well, at least theyre not giving up without a fight-

The court request is just a formality as they had undoubtedly already illegally hacked the network