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Re:Shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA by forgetsusername on Sunday January 24, 2016 @02:48PM (#10963732)
If they can come in at any time and say "we only want this one guy" then the rest of the users privacy is already in trouble.
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Re:Shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA by Kalium on Sunday January 24, 2016 @05:34PM (#10964376)
In a sense, yes. One of Lavabit's failings is that they didn't design for scope-limited disclosure. When the FBI demanded their certs, it exposed all their users.
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Re:Shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA by tptacek on Sunday January 24, 2016 @06:47PM (#10964631)
Don't overthink it. The failure of Lavabit was designing a system that enabled disclosure at all. It wasn't end-to-end encrypted; its users had to trust its operators, which, because operators can always be coerced, is never safe.
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