On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 08:01:37AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/24/2013 07:55 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: > > >On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:45:54PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > >>Here I assume that U.S. law is not so draconian that it can require > >>someone who has contributed to Debian (and who is therefore > >>trusted) to continue doing so. > > > >Don't be too sure. The owner of, I believe, lavabit was threatened > >with criminal prosecution for shutting down his site rather than > >comply with the NSA. Can't vouch for that but that's the story going > >around. > > It's unclear, but the interpretation of the reports which I find most > plausible is that the threat (of "contempt of court", AIUI) may have > been not for shutting down the site or for refusing to comply but for > effectively violating a gag order about the whole thing by the way he > explained that - and why - he was shutting down.
Gag orders accompany NSA demands for compliance. The way I heard it, he shut the site down out of fear that he could be forced to comply. Again, I can't vouch for it but that's the way I heard the story. -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor Strangelove Key ID 8D549279
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