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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by moutarde on Thursday August 08, 2013 @10:38PM (#6183387)
The same server(s) also control the JavaScript code run by the client/browser. They could serve special code (to any one the government wanted to spy on) that returned their password to the server.
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Re:Lavabit abruptly shuts down by rorrr2 on Friday August 09, 2013 @09:04AM (#6185319)
That's exactly why LavaBit shut down, looks like they were forced to do that.
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