Redaction Blunder: Snoden was the Feds' quarry in Lavabit case

"They missed a single reference. One of the first things we did on downloading the 560‑pages [PDF] was run a search on the word "Snowden" and lo and behold – on page 79, while noting that the entire record was under seal, up pops the email address "Ed_Snowden@lavabit.com."

As you can see from another page in the release, the redactions came thick and fast in relation to any mention of the NSA whistleblower, so the failure to notice a single reference to his email address is likely to cause some frustration in the FBI."

— http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/17/feds_did_target_snowden_in_lavabit_case/

"Today I learned that Apple has better lawyers than DOJ"

'... in a declaration filed yesterday by Erik Neuenschwander, Apple’s manager of user privacy, Apple suggested that Pluhar needed more training.

“This is false because it is not possible,” Neuenschwander wrote ... Apple appeared to sum up its assessment of the government’s incorrect understanding of the legal and technical issues in the case in a quote at the end of its brief yesterday:

“Almost 90 years ago, Justice Louis Brandeis, reflecting on the ‘progress of science’ beyond wiretapping famously warned that ‘[t]he greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding’.”'

— http://www.wired.com/2016/03/apple-fact-checks-the-feds-in-latest-brief/?mbid=social_fb