How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font
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#2Small moves like that makes me proud to be on the internet at this day and age of crisis. I hope I can tell my children or grand children that I actually cared and that I made a small difference, even if it's only the smallest of all.
I hope it will stay the way it is. Probably not, seeing how the public is ignoring and/or is not caring about the issue at all.
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#3Once again, if you want to support Lavabit, please donate to the defense fund either at http://lavabit.com/ or https://rally.org/lavabit.
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#4This was already discussed at length earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487969
Re: How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font
#5Small moves like that makes me proud to be on the internet at this day and age of crisis. I hope I can tell my children or grand children that I actually cared and that I made a small difference, even if it's only the smallest of all. I hope it will stay the way it is. Probably not, seeing how the public is ignoring and/or is not caring about the issue at all.
> I hope it will stay the way it is.
...this is the Internet we're talking about. It's almost completely unrecognizable from the way it was 5 years ago.
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#6Wouldn't the FBI have the technical capability to use optical character recognition to digitise the keys to actual text? Or maybe it's too small to be legible to a high DPI scanner? I really admire Lavabit here, they're not dealing with your average Joe, they're dealing with the American Government and that costs money. Everyone has the chance to help potentially make history by supporting Lavabit and donate to its legal fund.
Many would have just given up the moment things escalated, but Ladar Levison never gave in and fought for the privacy of his users at the cost of his profitable business and life. The cards are stacked against him, but he didn't let it get in the way of trying to fight the case and have it made publicly.
How many other companies have secretly complied with similar requests we don't know about? United States of America, the land of the free, right?
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#7Small moves like that makes me proud to be on the internet at this day and age of crisis. I hope I can tell my children or grand children that I actually cared and that I made a small difference, even if it's only the smallest of all. I hope it will stay the way it is. Probably not, seeing how the public is ignoring and/or is not caring about the issue at all.
> I hope it will stay the way it is. ...this is the Internet we're talking about. It's almost completely unrecognizable from the way it was 5 years ago.
I broadly meant that as in not controlled by any single state, entity or corporation.
I for one welcome the new holographic internet cats shared by our minds and made entirely of pastas that are shaped into code. So long as those pastas are open.
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#8If my understanding is correct, the FBI could decrypt historical traffic if they had the keys. So, assuming the FBI/NSA has a huge archive of Lavabit's customer traffic (would not surprise me), couldn't they decrypt it all now since they have the SSL keys?
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#9If my understanding is correct, the FBI could decrypt historical traffic if they had the keys. So, assuming the FBI/NSA has a huge archive of Lavabit's customer traffic (would not surprise me), couldn't they decrypt it all now since they have the SSL keys?
Probably, but not necessarily https://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1856
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#10Not totally related:
It remind me of the case of "Free" a French ISP, they were forced like others ISP to send to the government the customer information related to IPs caught on P2P networks [0].
But the law did not specified how the data had to be sent, so to troll the government they sent everything by fax. And the volume was around multiple thousand queries a day.