I believe donating to their Legal Defense Fund is a sensible thing to do if you care about your rights. Link: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7BCR4A5W9PNN4" rel="nofollow">https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_b...</a>
That is crazy. I've recently signed up for an account. How annoying. I hope he wins his fight.<p>Talk about slapping down on the little guy.<p>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.
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.<p>Got it.
Lavabit is totally unknown to me. Did it offer some special security features? Anyone have any insights?<p>UPDATE: I'll answer my own question with a google cache of Lavabit's feature list @ <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:A6bRHXto3b8J:lavabit.com/features.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:A6bRHXt...</a>
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.<p>Are there any more like it right now out there?
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.<p>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.
Other story that links directly to the Lavabit website, rather than boingboing: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6180846" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6180846</a><p>Notably to his IP address rather than the domain itself. Maybe there is an expectancy that he will have the domain removed by the FBI?
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.