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Hack Lab: Introduction to Cybersecurity (INTLPOL 268)
Resource 4 . 1 . 6
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United States v. Lavabit, LLC (4th Cir. 2014)

Riana Pfefferkorn

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.

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
749 F.3d 276
Nos. 13-4625, 13-4626
2014-04-16

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