Lavabit.com Owner: 'I Could Be Arrested' For Resisting Surveillance Order

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 17, 2013 @12:25AM from the how-can-you-dare-to-say-that dept.

Zak3056 writes "NBC News is reporting that 'The owner of an encrypted email service used by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden said he has been threatened with criminal charges for refusing to comply with a secret surveillance order to turn over information about his customers. "I could be arrested for this action," Ladar Levison told NBC News about his decision to shut down his company, Lavabit LLC, in protest over a secret court order he had received from a federal court that is overseeing the investigation into Snowden.''"

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Re:Just comply with the court order by jsepeta · 2013-08-17 00:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait

since when the fuck have our courts cared about actual justice, and not about preserving the benefits for the 1%? our legal system rivals that of countries like Myanmar, with the exception that at least there is no pretense of justice under a tyrannical regime.

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