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I like the part where he can't tell you why he's shutting down. As if we won't engage in rampant irresponsible speculation that they have told him to decrypt an
by raganwald 13y ago
I like the part where he can't tell you why he's shutting down. As if we won't engage in rampant irresponsible speculation that they have told him to decrypt and forward everything to them in real time.
- toyg 13y agowhat would you have him do? He's clearly under NSL, so he can't tell you what he was asked for. This is the strongest statement he can legally make (in fact, i'm sure some US lawyers would argue that it's actually beyond that). I guess we now know how it must have felt to watch republican institutions spiral into tyranny in ancient Rome.
- hga 13y agoYes, unfortunately; I'm a student of that period of history and it's getting pretty bad by its standards. No proscriptions yet, though ... perhaps because that doesn't work so well with a well armed populace.
- reedlaw 13y agoHopefully he would become a whistleblower, but with such a bleak outcome for Snowden I can sympathize with his not wanting to.
- a3n 13y agoYou kind of have to assume that if you're a customer.
- clamprecht 13y agoThe standard way to get the story out is via "leaks". Someone could, gasp, hack into his email, get the story, and publish it.
- mtgx 13y agoHe's most likely under a gag order. I thought that was pretty obvious.
- jaekwon 13y agoAren't gag orders challengeable? I thought they were found unconstitutional. http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/privacy/309277-judge-says-fbi-gag-orders-violate-first-amendment http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/privacy/309277-judge-says-fbi...
- mtgx 13y agoI think they were found unconstitutional when they were forcing people to not even tell their lawyers. You can tell your lawyer now, and you can fight the gag order in Court - but in secret. Until the court tells you can tell everyone about it, you can't.
- rdl 13y agoI'm curious exactly what the legal sanction is for telling the world/press.
- guelo 13y agoI'd say it's more than rampant speculation. Shutting down his company was probably his only legal way of informing us.
- erikpukinskis 13y agoIt's unlikely they asked him to decrypt and forward everything. Someone would immediately notice the change and raise the alarms. Much more likely they asked him to slip in a backdoor for some specific users. That's much harder to detect.