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I'm not totally convinced that they even knew about it. If they had known about it, why bother going to the courts to coerce Lavabit to give up their SSL keys?
by AnkhMorporkian 13y ago
I'm not totally convinced that they even knew about it. If they had known about it, why bother going to the courts to coerce Lavabit to give up their SSL keys?
- ssmoot 13y agoWasn't that the FBI? If there were other means (blank-cheque warrants) to achieve their goals, it seems unlikely that the NSA would loop those agents in. Plus, would evidence obtained that way, without a warrant, even be admissible in any court? I mean, I guess this all went down after Snowden had left the country? So I'm not sure a court date was the end goal anyway. I'm fuzzy on the details/chronology.
- jessaustin 13y agoAny intelligence agency will prioritize source protection. Recall the efforts of the Ultra program in WWII: they sent out dummy reconnaissance planes to prevent the Germans from suspecting that Enigma had been broken. It's possible that the government already had the communications that Lavabit was trying to protect, but were putting on a public show so as not to reveal the brokenness of OpenSSL. See also "parallel construction".