That is crazy. I've recently signed up for an account. How annoying. I hope he wins his fight.
Talk about slapping down on the little guy.
His choice was a noble one. How many others would walk away from their business rather than be complicit in crimes of the state against it's own people? Few I imagine.
I asked in the referenced thread for any US precedence of forcing an innocent to work against their will. I do not know of any.
If the courts, NSA, congress has been forcing innoscents to work against their will then it will greatly change my view/ understanding of the US government, the problems faced by the american people and the world.
>If the courts, NSA, congress has been forcing innoscents to work against their will
basic subpoena forces one to provide the required info. With a little bit of a stretch we can see how a subpoena can be issued for the [future] clear texts that "your webpage" ( an applet downloaded as part of the web page ) will "contain" before sending encrypted version back to your server - in short it means forcing to implement backdoor.
> will "contain" before sending encrypted version back to your server - in short it means forcing to implement backdoor.
Oh sure, definitely, that seems like that is within the scope of the currently claimed power. As far as I know though the operator has the option of closing up shop however and therefore is not being forced to work against their will, but not a fun choice though.
I am interested in any case law that disallows the operator the option of shutting down rather then implement a back door or anything similar.
I believe that's a completely different issue given that selling pharmaceuticals is highly regulated and requires licensing. To my knowledge, there also aren't any sanctions for a pharmacist choosing to quit rather than dispense medication as required.
So the US government will order you to suspend the privacy of your users, after which they turn around and intimidate you in not violating their privacy in what they are doing.
American jurisprudence has never been free of bias or prejudice, especially the Federal government. It's a matter of official policy to arrange for arbitrary assertion of power.
So now we know of one model of e-mail systems that's secure. I hope more e-mail service startups pop up that use similar techniques of managing e-mails.
Wow, someone mentioned these guys yesterday in some thread and I went to take a look. I was pretty interested, however, I noticed that some critical links were broken (e.g. login and sign up), so I wandered away. I guess I know why those links were broken...
Can't they just changes jurisdictions? It's not like the US is the only place to incorporate and host servers.
It's be awesome if we could invent the legal equivalent of a vagrant box for corporate personhood. How cool would it be if you could easily transfer your company between countries, choosing the jurisdiction most convenient for the moment.
Someone really should implement the third party legal notification address cc which publishes all, and particularly interesting, mail. If your NSL comes in on a published address ("for quality control and screening purposes"), and gets published as a matter of routine ops, it is out of your hands, and fuck them.
