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"Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland. That sugg
by mpyne 13y ago
"Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland. That suggests that Levison isn’t a privacy absolutist. Whatever compelled him to shut down now must have been exceptional."
Wow. Now I'm even more interested at what the NSL/court order was looking for here.
- cheald 13y agoI will put dollars to donuts they were after Snowden's contact list. They want to know about his deadman's switch, who holds the keys, and who they have to squeeze to defuse that particular landline.
- shasta 13y agoThey're not asking for any particular information that lavabit has now. If they were, shutting down wouldn't be a solution to not handing it over. They are asking for additional access going forward.
- cdjk 13y agoBut that additional access would probably include various keys that would let them decrypt previous communication. Maybe the order was to log passwords on login, or something like that, that would allow recovery of the key and decryption of stored data, which may not be possible depending on the original architecture of the system.
- cheald 13y agoI know, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that Snowden may be in contact with people that his pursuers are not yet aware of. Tapping his communications would give them a much larger attack surface.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago>They want to know about his deadman's switch They may soon find out more than they wanted to know about it, if it was automated in any way.
- cheald 13y agoHah. That's something I hadn't considered. Oh my, now there's an interesting concept.
- revelation 13y agoHe probably complied because he knew that 1) he could tell whoever was targeted of this happening and 2) whatever data they seized would be worthless?
- mpyne 13y agoMost privacy advocates I've seen don't like child pornographers either, they just don't subscribe to the idea that people's privacy should be infringed (even if that means it's easier for child pornographers to communicate). So I don't see why he would do 1). Perhaps 2), but then you would think the same would apply here, unless the NSL/court order is demanding a wiretap to be installed for the future.
- unreal37 13y agoTheir shutdown letter talks about the ordeal of the "last 6 weeks", so it definitely has to do with the US Govt trying to force them to change their system to allow them access to emails because of Snowden. The way Microsoft put a back door into the new Outlook.
- derrida 13y ago> The way Microsoft put a back door into the new Outlook Could someone provide a link for this? Thanks.
- dbarlett 13y agohttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
- sev 13y agoQuick search reveals: Accusation: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/31729/edward-snowden-reveals-that-microsoft-have-built-a-backdoor-in-outlook-com-for-the-nsa/index.html http://www.tweaktown.com/news/31729/edward-snowden-reveals-t... Denial: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/16/microsoft_denies_it_gives_backdoor_access_to_outlook_encryption/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/16/microsoft_denies_it_...
- nodata 13y agoSpot the smear.
- betterunix 13y agoProbably secret keys for all the users, along with TLS secret keys, user records, etc. Nothing extraordinary for the US government to demand; what is extraordinary is for a service provider to shut down because of it.