Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle
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#2TL,DR: "This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."
Re: Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle
#3Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6181081 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6180846.
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#5"Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland. That suggests that Levison isn’t a privacy absolutist. Whatever compelled him to shut down now must have been exceptional."
Wow. Now I'm even more interested at what the NSL/court order was looking for here.
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#6"after secret court battle"?
I got the impression the court battle hasn't started yet over this. Or is he talking about that child porn subpoena? But the headline is confusing.
Re: Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle
#7TL,DR: "This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."
If this is happening in the USA with its famous constitution, then well, I think the end of this statement can be easily converted just to _any_country_.
Re: Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle
#8"Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland. That suggests that Levison isn’t a privacy absolutist. Whatever compelled him to shut down now must have been exceptional." Wow. Now I'm even more interested at what the NSL/court order was looking for here.
I will put dollars to donuts they were after Snowden's contact list. They want to know about his deadman's switch, who holds the keys, and who they have to squeeze to defuse that particular landline.
Re: Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle
#9"Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland. That suggests that Levison isn’t a privacy absolutist. Whatever compelled him to shut down now must have been exceptional." Wow. Now I'm even more interested at what the NSL/court order was looking for here.
He probably complied because he knew that 1) he could tell whoever was targeted of this happening and 2) whatever data they seized would be worthless?
Re: Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle
#10" after secret court battle"? I got the impression the court battle hasn't started yet over this. Or is he talking about that child porn subpoena? But the headline is confusing.
His letter states that he has already made representations twice to the authorities (the FISA court?), but is obliged to keep those secret:
As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.