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Saying that handing over money to them somehow = human rights isn't much better than the people who say that PRISM = protection. Just because LavaBit's shtick a

Saying that handing over money to them somehow = human rights isn't much better than the people who say that PRISM = protection. Just because LavaBit's shtick and rallying cry is around freedom doesn't mean that they aren't a crap company or that they are telling the whole truth about what has gone down. For all we know the founder is just some wacky libertarian taking an opportunity to give the gov some bad press.

smtddr 13y ago
> Saying that handing over money to them somehow = human rights isn't much better than the people who say that PRISM = protection. I think it's MUCH MUCH BETTER. > For all we know the founder is just some wacky libertarian taking an opportunity to give the gov some bad press. Needless FUD. For all I know you're an alien from outer space, for all I know we're all in The Matrix, for all I know everyone here is an automation-script and HackerNews is an experiment in how long they can keep me, smtddr, believing that I'm talking with real humans. You can't live life in FUD. I think it's more likely that you're a NSA/USgov shill who just created this account to post this comment... than the Lavabit founders set up all this encryption to a point that even Snowden trusted them, just to turn around aand give the government some bad press. And seriously, "wacky libertarian"? Define that for me. And "just to give gov some bad press?" Why? What do libs have to gain by giving USgov a bad name just for the sake of it? The USgov has given itself a bad enough name just by the NSA leaks, they don't need any help from any "wacky libs".