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NSA forces 2 encrypted email services to shut down.

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I just saw this in the news and thought I'd share this article.

 

 

 

 

http://mashable.com/2013/08/09/silent-circle-lavabit-shut-down-to-avoid-nsa-snooping/

 

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Semi-duplicate post:

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/44156-lavabit-shuts-down-to-become-complicit-in-crimes-against-the-american-people-or-walk-away-from-nearly-ten-years-of-hard-work/

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
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And the second one is not forced to do anything, they decided on their own to stop. Before anything happened.

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I don't understand why these companies gave in?

Lavabit didn't give in. Not by a long shot.

 

If he gave in they would have a backdoor into it's services right about now.

Instead he said srew this and terminated his business and 10 years of work.

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I don't understand why these companies gave in?

 

It's either that or you end up being tried for treason, what would you prefer? The NSA has some serious problems these days, sadly they have the power to get over them by ill means.

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It's either that or you end up being tried for treason, what would you prefer? The NSA has some serious problems these days, sadly they have the power to get over them by ill means.

Some country needs to start sanctions because this goes way too far since way too long.

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