I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.
This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States. Ladar Levison
Is great that this is happening. Internet dependence on USA's infrastructure was always a problem. This will only make things better, as intellingent people will refuse to be anyone's sheep.
>>9
Eras can be long. Ends can take long. Paradigm shifts don't happen overnight.
The fact of the matter is that we've gone from ``never post any personal information about yourself'' and ``don't take the internet too seriously'' to ``you're a weirdo if you're not on social networks and post a lot of very personal information'' and ``cyberbullying destroys lives''. And don't forget that only terrorists care about privacy! Well, that's what the government wants us to believe, anyway.
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Anonymous2013-08-08 17:40
>>11
I'm going to lel really hard if China decides to go all open and free (why wouldn't they? they've worked fucking hard for the past 50 years forevers) and the USA becomes authoritarian as fuck and eventually succumbs to the rampant ignorance of its population.
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Anonymous2013-08-08 17:42
>>7
I agree, the wild west period of the internet was back when all sites used http and everything could be intercepted. Thank god it's all over now.
>>1
In the USA, the Internet was dead on 2002, when all ISP in the were required by law to implement gateways/backdoors on their backbones.
>>8
Digital pulses and organized bits in the Darpanet are not considered press, since the patents and network infrastructure belong to the US. Thus there are too many laws in the US that if the US gov. want something in the US, they can get it. Reading all the FCC rulings should have been enough of a warning. After the Kim Dotcom incident occurred, it should have been crystal clear that the USA will use force to get what it wants, in whatever part of the world.
Ladar issue right now it worse, so pray they do not convict him. Be sure if you will donate, donate anonymously, with cash and a proxy. Their servers have been compromised. If used to host with them, prepare your collateral damage reports to your correspondents.
>>21
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if http is older than that guy.
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Anonymous2013-08-08 20:14
Sometimes I think people, perhaps federal agents, might be monitoring me through my webcam. This doesn't really bother me, in fact the idea of someone watching over me kind of comforts me, but I think they might be laughing at how pathetic my life is. :-(
>>24
You can make an SSL/TLS connection to the server before you connect. Obviously remove from your headers the IP address. Almost all real news servers provide SSL. Also, you are welcome to use any proxy server or VPN to send messages if you can't use SSL. It the least the protocol does not ask you for your user agent and any other identifying information. Do you even research before you post?
>>26 You can make an SSL/TLS connection to the server before you connect. Obviously remove from your headers the IP address. Almost all real news servers provide SSL.
They do now, but did they 15 years ago?
>>18
Sucks to say this but ISPs around the world are shutting down their news servers. I was stunned when my ISP shutdown it too citing that nobody uses the usenet anymore. News were always the backbone of the internet and they still are widely used for various purposes... The Internet is dying.
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Anonymous2013-08-08 22:49
>>29
My ISP news server sucked as far back as the mid-90s, think I was on Altopia then since they were the most lenient about fucking around with your headers and such things. But then their retention went to shit and I switched to Easynews.
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Anonymous2013-08-08 22:51
Sucks to say this but ISPs around the world are shutting down their jews servers. I was stunned when my ISP shutdown it too citing that nobody uses the jewsnet anymore. Jews were always the backbone of the internet and they still are widely used for various purposes... The Internet is dying.
>>27
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Since 1999~! So around 13-14 years ago. However regardless of SSL existence or not, everyone used proxies and VPNs (even if it meant going to an university or library). And those that were prudent, removed the IP address headers when sending USENET posts. Why do you actually think most ISP took out USENET? It was not copyright or CP. If you can look this up, it was because the US Government wanted anonymity OFF all networks, and ISP were forced to comply)
>>29 Sucks to say this but ISPs around the world were shutting down their news servers
Um make your own. Esp, as hidden services. The Freenet, I2P, Gnutella, GNUnet, and other P2P networks are vivid with nntp gateways. And people enjoy making them.
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"INSERT OFFENSIVE ETHNIC STEREOTYPE THAT INVOLVES MEMETIC MUTATION HERE". Thank God for censorship. Hopefully, while we are at it, we can get rid of offensive repeating spam posts like this one. You don't need to be looking at the exact same post repeatedly. That's why you are using the internet instead of watching TV in the first place. Original content trumps repeated bullshit. Even if the content is not entertaining.