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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."
Lavabit shut down. Their other customers have lost service. They are almost certainly going to lose in court. I doubt many in the public will support them when the fact emerge that they were defying court orders.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
...when the fact emerge that they were defying court orders.
...when the fact emerge that they were defying [Secret, Unaccountable, Undemocratic] court orders.
The FISA courts were created by Congress, the same as any other Federal court besides the Supreme Court. The FISA court is accountable to both its appeal court and the Supreme Court like other Federal Courts, and the Judges can be removed by Congress as can other Judges. In fact, the Judges on the FISA court are ordinary Federal judges that rotate through the FISA court from other Federal courts. It isn't uncommon for Court orders to be sealed during investigations, especially when investigating matters involving classified information. Your point is pretty much nonsense.
As to the Nazi "Special Courts," that is a nonsense comparison. The primary purpose of the FISA court is to provide a dedicated court for the consideration of applications for warrants involving national security surveillance, not to try suspects.
Obviously the operators of the Cold Fjord account ...
That trolling is tedious.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell