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From Wikipedia article: Levison objected saying that the key would allow the government to access communications by all 400,000 customers of Lavabit. He also o
by joering2 13y ago
From Wikipedia article:
Levison objected saying that the key would allow the government to access communications by all 400,000 customers of Lavabit. He also offered to add code to his servers that would provide the information required just for the target of the order. The court rejected this offer since it would require the government to trust Mr. Levison and stated that just because the government could access all customers' communication did not mean they would be legally permitted to do so.
This is a CORE of what is wrong with the oppressive system US become. Note that Levison himself did not commit any crime; he simply offered the service to host emails; he was not a criminal but yet court decided that he can't be trusted. This is a core of the problem here. You can be a saint Pope yourself and the Gov will not entrust you, but yet at the same time you have government who on record murder its own people and do things after which you would have not slept for a month, and is given carte blanche type of trust from the judge.
- malandrew 13y agoThe government clearly can't be trusted either. They said they didn't collect information on millions of Americans, which was an outright lie ("least untruthful" statements are still lies). In another comment I proposed a solution where there is a shared, recorded pair programming session where the actual commands to be executed are approved by each side before execution. What I don't know is if such a session could be set up without giving exposing your keys to the system capable of handling the shared session.