On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Kyle Maxwell <kylem@xwell.org> wrote:
...by top posting.
http://boingboing.net/2013/07/12/so-apparently-edward-snowden.html
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Trigger Happy <triggerhappy@openmail.cc> wrote:
what I saw today lavabit.com
quote: lavabit.com
I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks
Hushmail is certainly under the same pressure for the same reason.
in crimes against the American people
In addition to the above singular news reference, this plurality seems to perhaps imply a further prism/verizon like all-data situation as well. Not an unexpected thing these days.
the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. I have twice made the appropriate requests.
What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.
The US first amendment... it's time more people started exercising it. Excepting order of precedence as it may apply to the risk averse, the permission of appeal, against that which would (or should, if that is your politic) be struck down, isn't required to do so. Links: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/first_amendment http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1toc_user.html https://encrypted.google.com/?q="ladar+levison"
_strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
Remove the ability of services to see the data and this legacy problem of entrusting cleartext goes away. Maybe at that point everything becomes just node services for hidden applications. Mail is a big one. Maintaining interoperation while integrating client side encryption is a nice goal but fails to hide the @talkers. Whoever comes up with a fully anonymous, encrypted, defined-persistance p2p strong replacement that people actually use will get a lot of credit. Recent news has opened people up such that a good window of adoption opportunity will exist for a while. Same for storage/block services using an open client side encryption API. There's still plenty of room, need, and reason for people to make stands with traditional mail services too.