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NBC is reporting that U.S. Attorney James Trump may bring charges against encrypted email provider Lavabit.com owner Ladar Levison for shutting down rather than allowing blanket spying on customers.

Part of the fallout from this surveillance is that various service providers are now having to carefully weigh customer convenience and debugging information against having capabilities which could be exploited. Logs now need to get purged regularly, or not kept at all.