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If they can come in at any time and say "we only want this one guy" then the rest of the users privacy is already in trouble.
by forgetsusername 11y ago
If they can come in at any time and say "we only want this one guy" then the rest of the users privacy is already in trouble.
- Kalium 11y agoIn a sense, yes. One of Lavabit's failings is that they didn't design for scope-limited disclosure. When the FBI demanded their certs, it exposed all their users.
- tptacek 11y agoDon't overthink it. The failure of Lavabit was designing a system that enabled disclosure at all. It wasn't end-to-end encrypted; its users had to trust its operators, which, because operators can always be coerced, is never safe.