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• freehunter 13y ago
  Civil disobedience in the case of Yahoo means their company shots down ala Lavabit. I'm sure they would rather keep running under poor conditions than shut down.
  • natch 13y ago
    The government is not going to shut down all of Yahoo just because they publish the value of a 16 bit integer.
    • eli 13y ago
      You misunderstand. The government didn't shut down Lavabit. They (allegedly) ordered them to insert a backdoor. Not doing so could have caused the principles to face personal criminal charges. I love my customers, but I'm probably not going to go to federal prison for them.
      • natch 13y ago
        Yes I know what happened at Lavabit. And seeing the Google/Yahoo execs going to prison to protect their users was exactly what I had in mind. I'm not saying I expect them to do it, but it would be admirable. We could get into hypotheticals about in which scenarios would this even help... and I admit that in many scenarios it would be futile, but for some scenarios, it would be an option, even though it would come at great cost.