Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
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Re: Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
#2Yet a "safe" email system is now gone. A better idea would be to move yourself and your encrypted email company to a country that will let you keep providing such a useful service (assuming there is one).
Re: Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
#3Yet a "safe" email system is now gone. A better idea would be to move yourself and your encrypted email company to a country that will let you keep providing such a useful service (assuming there is one).
With NZ becoming less safe, it seems that's exactly what Mega intends to do for its storage service and the upcoming secure e-mail service. If he does it right, it could fill the space left Lavabit and Silent Mail.
https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-will-move-mega-privacy-s...
Re: Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
#4How is it possible for Snowden to be inspired any further?
He sacrified his life for us. He is the inspiration.
Certainly no president in the next few terms will rest until he is rendered, he has to look over his shoulder now forever.
Thank you for your sacrifice Mr. Snowden.
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#5"Can we call it a police state now?"
I saw the question on Reddit after a different revelation last month. I feel like we're going to ask that question more and more.
I can only hope more and more of us are inspired, as Snowden was by Levinson (Lavabit's CEO) and many of us have been by both of them, and we act to protect ourselves and constrain our governments from overreaching to where they can't help repeating the disasters of previous overreaching governments.
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#6Snowden: "Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and the rest of our internet titans must ask themselves why they aren't fighting for our interests the same way".
Indeed, they must. Your move Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple.
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#7Snowden: "Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and the rest of our internet titans must ask themselves why they aren't fighting for our interests the same way". Indeed, they must. Your move Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple.
You mean: Your move Larry, Mark, Steve, Merissa and Tim.
In the end the base unit of society is still the human, no matter how many layers we place around them.
Re: Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
#8"Can we call it a police state now?" I saw the question on Reddit after a different revelation last month. I feel like we're going to ask that question more and more. I can only hope more and more of us are inspired, as Snowden was by Levinson (Lavabit's CEO) and many of us have been by both of them, and we act to protect ourselves and constrain our governments from overreaching to where they can't help repeating the…
My reply on Reddit when I see people bring that up is simple:
You insult people who have experienced a police state by calling what we are experiencing a police state.
A police state has no distinction between legislation and executive.
Our legislation is currently investigating the president for: * CIA coverup of the attack on our Benghazi consulate' * IRS targeting of political opposition
They're planning on using their primary power, the power over our nations money, to enforce not only strict budget cuts, but requiring that the President's signature legislative victory be repealed.
That's before we discuss the court and how they've treated the President. Remember when they threw out his NLRB nominations as unconstitutional?
Now someone will bring up spying, but I urge you to realize that Congressional distaste for spying is centralized among the less important Congresspeople. Our leadership on both sides of the aisle is largely supportive of the infrastructure, seeing as they wrote and passed all of the laws that make it possibly. That's not an executive behaving without regard to legislation, it's one working with them.
I don't see a police state, and I think being cavalier with terminology does a grave injustice to lessons of the past and the people who have experienced (and are experiencing) a totalitarian government with truly no checks and balances.
Re: Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
#9Yet a "safe" email system is now gone. A better idea would be to move yourself and your encrypted email company to a country that will let you keep providing such a useful service (assuming there is one).
Email is not safe, by design. Even if you do encrypt the contents using PGP or GPG, the headers are too much exposure. They will know who when and with whom you correspond, and all the hosts the mail passed through (if you are not using anonymous re-mailers). The current implementation of email is "defective by design". But _there_are_ alternatives [1], you must just start using them.
[1] RetroShare, BitMessage, I2P Bote, Freenet + Frost and some others, which haven't tried yet.
Re: Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
#10Why is Lavabit, based out of Texas, appealing in the Fourth Circuit (Maryland, West VA, Virginia, North and South Carolina)?