@Lavabit
@"Besides, the government didn't shut down Lavabit, the owner of it did so himself. The government had ordered it to produce records via a NSL"
Sort of, they actually used an NSL to demand he hand over the encryption keys in secret. So in theory and law the NSL says they can demand meta data, in practice they've substituted "give us everything and we promise to only look at what we're legally allowed to look at". And since the NSL is secret such abuses are done in secret without discussion.
Round 1 - San Bernadino
Round 2 - Netherlands PGP Phone
Really, I'd like to see this company sue the Dutch police for trying to misuse the money laundering law. But more than that, they should use Freedom of Information requests to see if there has been some undue lobbying from the FBI. The timing is just tooooo coincidental.
FBI director is clearly lobbying for backdoors, the San Bernadino phone was chosen as a suitable test case, and he's likely used his position to lobby foreign police forces looking for another test case having lost the last round.
So a PGP encrypted phone could be the next game he's playing and they need to find out how much of the claimed evidence comes from the FBI and how much discussion has gone on, related to this.
But if the Dutch police have let themselves be used for political purposes, they really need to be reigned in. We need secure encrypted phones for politicians, businessmen, journalists, and really anyone who wants their privacy.