Lavabit, an extra-secure email service reportedly used by Edward Snowden, has suspended operations today via an accusatory memo on its homepage: "I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit."
From the note:
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."
Legally I am not permitted to show you a picture of a rabbit, so here instead is the cut-out silhouette of an herbivore from genus Lagomorpha.
I definitely have a love-hate relationship with this country...right now it's much more of a hate.
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
I recall all of the "soviet russia" and "KGB" jokes over the years. Now the joke's on us.
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