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Re:For German, Swiss Privacy Start-Ups, a Post-Snowden Boom by zmanian on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @01:31PM (#8203365)
The problem with Lavabit was not primarily the jurisdiction in which it operated.

The primary problem is an architecture where keys are held on third party servers and cryptographic code is secured only with an https connection.

We need to design our services to be robust and transparent in hostile jurisdictions rather than resting on the relatively weak privacy assurances of nation states.

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Re:For German, Swiss Privacy Start-Ups, a Post-Snowden Boom by BillFranklin on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @07:42PM (#8205266)
Exactly. Protect user privacy with zero-knowledge architecture, not with geography. The article was discussing the merits of German and Swiss privacy laws - which compared to the US' are better for our service.
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