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It may be simpler than that. Even if Snowden has walked away from this service, the publicity may have attracted a lot of people the authorities find interestin
by raganwald 13y ago
It may be simpler than that. Even if Snowden has walked away from this service, the publicity may have attracted a lot of people the authorities find interesting, including legitimate (whatever that means) persons of interest.
- toyg 13y agoThe political backlash attached to slapping an NSL on "Snowden's email provider" would have looked obvious to a 5-year-old, and any real player worth its salt would have run from Lavabit as soon as it hit the news. No, this has nothing to do with common criminals and everything to do with Snowden.
- jlgreco 13y agoDidn't Italy nail a mob boss a few years ago because they were using a common substitution cipher?
- pchristensen 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Provenzano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Provenzano
- jlgreco 13y agoYup, that's the guy: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/mafia_boss_secu.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/mafia_boss_sec...
- ptwiggens 13y agoNSL's come with a gag order. There wouldn't have been any backlash as no one would have known about it. He shut it down because that was the only way to legally prevent the government from spying on his users.
- 001sky 13y agoGood point. While controversial, this is exactly why, too. (Fed's don't want to tip their hand).
- toyg 13y agoSomebody running a service like Lavabit woild be a very motivated individual, civil disobedience was a real risk.
- jaekwon 13y agoHaven't NSL gag orders been 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... I wonder why he didn't challenge it.
- kaonashi 13y agoBecause challenging it from a solitary confinement cell might not sound that appealing.