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Re:Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from th... by freehunter on Monday September 09, 2013 @01:02PM (#6354608)
Civil disobedience in the case of Yahoo means their company shots down ala Lavabit. I'm sure they would rather keep running under poor conditions than shut down.
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Re:Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from th... by natch on Monday September 09, 2013 @09:55PM (#6357590)
The government is not going to shut down all of Yahoo just because they publish the value of a 16 bit integer.
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Re:Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from th... by eli on Monday September 09, 2013 @11:24PM (#6357972)
You misunderstand. The government didn't shut down Lavabit. They (allegedly) ordered them to insert a backdoor. Not doing so could have caused the principles to face personal criminal charges. I love my customers, but I'm probably not going to go to federal prison for them.
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Re:Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from th... by natch on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @12:55AM (#6358240)
Yes I know what happened at Lavabit. And seeing the Google/Yahoo execs going to prison to protect their users was exactly what I had in mind. I'm not saying I expect them to do it, but it would be admirable. We could get into hypotheticals about in which scenarios would this even help... and I admit that in many scenarios it would be futile, but for some scenarios, it would be an option, even though it would come at great cost.
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