SECURE EMAIL SERVICE USED BY SNOWDEN SHUTS DOWN TO AVOID BECOMING ‘COMPLICIT IN CRIMES AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’
A Texas-based secure email service that was reportedly used by admitted National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden — and others wishing for secure online communication — says it is shutting down, and legally can’t explain why.
This note appears on Lavabit’s home page. (Image: Lavabit.com)
In a cryptic note posted Thursday to the Lavabit website, owner Ladar Levison said the company is folding rather than becoming, in his words, “complicit in crimes against the American people.”
I'm sure that was the ominous phrase used by Homeland Security or the FBI, or the DEA, or the Secret Service, or the Treasury agents when they told the owners that they (the government) either gets a "backdoor' into their server, or they will "likely" become the focus of an "investigation" into whether Lavabit was "complicit". Throw in some threats about "taxes", audit trails, regulatory paperwork, lawyer fees to cope with the avalanche of "we TOLD you to COOPERATE!!" hassles. Where are the goofs who still believe "the system is working"? Thank the Patriot Act for them (we, the people) for NOT being able to legally publicize the facts. Not only do these goons carry out thuggish and mafia-like rubouts, they make it against the law to tell anyone!!
Everybody is afraid of the government, except Chief Kessler.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that was the ominous phrase used by Homeland Security or the FBI, or the DEA, or the Secret Service, or the Treasury agents when they told the owners that they (the government) either gets a "backdoor' into their server, or they will "likely" become the focus of an "investigation" into whether Lavabit was "complicit". Throw in some threats about "taxes", audit trails, regulatory paperwork, lawyer fees to cope with the avalanche of "we TOLD you to COOPERATE!!" hassles. Where are the goofs who still believe "the system is working"? Thank the Patriot Act for them (we, the people) for NOT being able to legally publicize the facts. Not only do these goons carry out thuggish and mafia-like rubouts, they make it against the law to tell anyone!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Imclain. You are probably in the center of the bullseye with that.
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