Inside the Decision To Shut Down Silent Mail 182
Trailrunner7 writes with this snippet from ThreatPost:: "Silent Circle's decision to shut down its Silent Mail email service may have come quickly yesterday, and the timing of the announcement admittedly was prompted by Lavabit's decision to suspend operations hours before. But the seeds for this decision may have been sown long before Edward Snowden, who reportedly used Lavabit as a secure email provider, was a household name and NSA warrants for customer data were known costs of doing business. ... 'When we saw the Lavabit announcement, the thing we were worrying about had happened, and it had happened to somebody else. It was very difficult to not think I'm next,' Callas said. 'I had been discussing with Phil [founder and PGP developer Phil Zimmerman] over dinner the night before, should we be doing this and what the timing should be. I was looking at it from point that I want to be a responsible service provider and not leave users in a lurch. [The Lavabit announcement] told me I have to start moving on it now.'"
Easy solution: move your mail server to Russia (Score:4, Funny)
If ever there was a bastion of freedom and personal privacy, it's Russia. As far as I know, they don't even have clandestine operations in the government. I heard it was abandoned when the USSR fell. You need look no further than the show of moral fortitude the Vladimir Putin made when offering Edward Snowden a year, knowing full well that the US government could invade at any moment under the slightest provocation. Freedom and Liberty are the founding cornerstones of not just Russian democracy, but the creed by which every Russian lives, from the top of the government and business all the way down to the lowliest citizen. Everyone there is given a fair shake and speaking your mind is rewarded with praise and admiration.
It's time we put our collective money where it is respected and get out of the US into a place that will let us live our lives the way we want. Out of oppression and government intimidation and into a land of openness, fairness, and true liberty: Russia.
Re: American hi-tech has a significant ethics prob (Score:5, Funny)
But spying on facebook chats will solve this!
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Can't decide whatever to post as AC or aliquis. Score mod points and karma or forever be seen as a drug lord by the NSA.