No. You receive the data over an ssl encrypted stream just like
   everyone else. It just is that no one can get the private key to mitm
   everything and get all data for all users.
   On Monday, October 21, 2013, Ted Smith wrote:

     ...so the third party decrypts your traffic for you and sends you
     plaintext?
     On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 23:26 -0400, Kelly John Rose wrote:
     > Crazy idea.
     >
     > Put the server into the hands of a third party outside of the US.
     Have
     > that 3rd party have total and absolute rights to the SSL root
     > certificate and your party to not have any capacity to force said
     party
     > to hand over the certificate. You use it, but you don't have any
     ability
     > to actually get access to it directly.
     >
     > Crazy idea, but I wonder if there would be some way to make this
     work
     > where even if they tried to force you, you couldn't hand it over.
     >
     > On 21/10/2013 11:09 PM, Kyle Maxwell wrote:
     > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Jim Bell
     <[1]jamesdbell8@yahoo.com> wrote:
     > >> The practice of shutting down a service in anticipation of the
     > >> government showing up and issuing a warrant (whether search- or
     > >> pen-register, or whatever) shows not merely a lack of guts, but
     also an
     > >> incredible lack of imagination. For example, I previously
     pointed out that
     > >> there is no longer any real basis for keeping records on the
     metadata
     > >> involved in in setting up a telephone call:
     > >
     > > So how do you propose that a provider perform SSL without
     keeping
     > > their private cert? And how should they respond when a court
     *orders*
     > > them to allow law enforcement or other agencies to install
     sniffers on
     > > their network? That's essentially what Lavabit faced.
     > >
     > > Also: it's easy to accuse someone of lacking guts or
     imagination, but
     > > I don't think any of these folks are shutting down services and
     even
     > > businesses without serious consideration of the costs involved -
     > > financial and otherwise.
     > >
     > > --
     > > @kylemaxwell
     > >
     >
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