CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA

sl4shd0rk writes "CryptoSeal Privacy, a VPN provider, has closed down its consumer VPN service. The company says it has zeroed its crypto keys, adding, 'Essentially, the service was created and operated under a certain understanding of current U.S. law, and that understanding may not currently be valid. As we are a US company and comply fully with U.S. law, but wish to protect the privacy of our users, it is impossible for us to continue offering the CryptoSeal Privacy consumer VPN product.' The announcement ends with a warning: 'For anyone operating a VPN, mail, or other communications provider in the U.S., we believe it would be prudent to evaluate whether a pen register order could be used to compel you to divulge SSL keys protecting message contents, and if so, to take appropriate action.' Sounds like another victim of FISA-endorsed NSA activity."

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[icebike]

I hope that when american corporations start seeing their customers scared away by this 1984 crap they'll turn their lobbying powers to reverse the trend. Isn't this how politics work in the US, the country that legalized bribery?

Would someone please hurry up and start scaring them away?!!

Because I'm not seeing any rush to forbid Facebook or Google or restrict use of American Cloud providers.
In fact they are growing faster than their off-shore competition.

Oh, yes, we've seen the boastful threats of EU legislation, but the EU can't even agree that Tuesday follows Monday,
let alone do any thing to inflict a penalty on anyone using American services.

And in spite of the indignant bashing of all things American (and there is no doubt a great deal of bashing is due),
EU countries ae doing the exact same thing. Its just that they don't have a true patriot like Edward Snowden.

But please, drum up support to ban the use of US storage services in all the countries of the world.
You will be doing us helpless Americans a huge favor.