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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by junto on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:39PM (#6181304)
The difference is that the authorities in Germany don't have the legal framework to force someone to do this and threaten them to stay silent.
Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by jbigelow76 on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:55PM (#6181430)
Ostensibly the US doesn't have that framework either, the Constitution would seem to preclude it (I realize we are talking about a myriad of offenses at this point so it may get hazy). But as you can see, shit gets ignored. Secret government agencies in Germany could ignore laws there just as easily as the NSA does in the US.
Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by chmars on Thursday August 08, 2013 @04:01PM (#6181475)
There are no countries where you are allowed to go public on surveillance measures applied to your customers, user etc. – at least not before the surveillance has been completed. And while traditional surveillance measures have an end, today's +/- total surveillance is continous.
Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by CamperBob2 on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:22PM (#6182015)
At some point, maybe the citizens of the world will understand that laws don't apply to the people who make them. They never have, and they never will.