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EDIT: somehow I ended up in the wrong HN topic so my comment was not directly related to this topic. I have not read the press release from Lavabit that this to
by jack-r-abbit 13y ago
EDIT: somehow I ended up in the wrong HN topic so my comment was not directly related to this topic. I have not read the press release from Lavabit that this topic links to. My bad.
- rst 13y agoAnd you're omitting "In fact the FBI agents even admitted their intention to collect passwords in transit so they could access emails protected by Lavabit’s encrypted storage feature." Regardless of the legal rationale, the FBI was demanding measures that would have given them access to everything, and they intended to use it. So, given that the whole rationale for Lavabit's service was protection against this kind of wholesale intrusion, the answer to your question is "no".
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoMy bad. I thought we were talking about what was written in the court order that Lavabit defied. I wasn't interested in talking about admissions made after the fact. Oddly... I'm not even sure how I got into this HN topic. I replied to a comment in another topic and ended up here. Thinking I was in the other topic about a different story, I commented based on that story. I have no idea where this FBI admission is. I didn't see it.
- acqq 13y agoThe device was to be controlled by FBI to select what to collect, practically at least having access to all the traffic of Lavabit.