On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Jim Bell <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