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Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys
jest3r writes "Lavabit won a victory in court and were able to get the secret court order [which led to the site's closure] unsealed. The ACLU's Chris Soghoian called it the nuclear option: The court order revealed the FBI demanded Lavabit turn over their root SSL certificate, something that would allow them to monitor the traffic of every user of the service. Lavabit offered an alternative method to tap into the single user in question but the FBI wasn't interested. Lavabit could either comply or shut down. As such, no U.S. company that relies on SSL encryption can be trusted with sensitive data. Everything from Google to Facebook to Skype to your bank account is only encrypted by SSL keys, and if the FBI can force Lavabit to hand over their SSL key or face shutdown, they can do it to anyone."
I know, right? I said the same thing when my friends acted all shocked and got up on their high horse when they found out about the 12 year old girl caged in my basement whom I raped several times a day and those ex-girlfriends I was forced to torture to death when they expressed a desire to break up with me when they caught me raping her.
People are such hypocrites! Everyone else is just the same. I mean who hasn't killed a few people and buried them in their backyards? Who hasn't raped and imprisoned a few tweens every now and then? It's just human nature. No one is any different. The only difference between me and most people is that I got caught and they didn't.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.