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Apparently double standards are wrong when the government does it, but are OK when "we" do it. What I'm not a fan of, however, is that Levison had claimed that
by mpyne 13y ago
Apparently double standards are wrong when the government does it, but are OK when "we" do it.
What I'm not a fan of, however, is that Levison had claimed that he's be willing to comply with (indeed, has complied with) specific warrants. He left the impression that the FBI was asking him to ruin his security in general.
However the court filings show that the request for the SSL priv keys came only after Levison failed to comply with... a specific warrant relating to Snowden and Snowden alone. So if Levison wasn't lying, he was definitely leaving something major out of his story.
- eli 13y agoAgreed. Though considering there are gag orders in play here, I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt.
- anaphor 13y agoHe was probably still working on a way to compromise Snowden while leaving all of the users still secure, and the FBI was probably just impatient. But that's pure speculation on my part.
- mpyne 13y agoFrom what I can gather in the released order, the FBI didn't actually ask for Snowden's communications to be compromised anyways, they wanted the "connection information" (i.e. IP addresses, any metadata). I don't understand why Levison didn't think he could comply with that, unless it was completely impossible for him to implement. But he never told the FBI it was technically impossible, he told them that he would not (as opposed to "could not") do it.