Comment by magicalist
10 years ago
> the National Security Letter, by which they can coerce any company to do what they want without the right to disclose such breaches.
National Security Letters can only be used to obtain metadata. Still bad, considering all that can be ascertained from metadata, buy not at all "coerce any company to do what they want"
What about lavabit? They were forced to shut up shop because of a secret order that was for much more than metadata.