[mike-cardwell]

I wonder what Gabriel Weinberg would do if the NSA told him to hand over his SSL keys so they could view all his traffic. Would he shut down like Lavabit did? Would be interesting to get a statement out of him about this.

[state]

Have to give you more than an upvote here. This is an excellent point, and could be extended to many companies that are concerned with privacy. It would be great if their leaders made preemptive public statements on how they would handle that situation.

[segmondy]

What we need is not someone who will shut down the server like Lavabit did, but someone who will refuse to hand over the keys and yet keep the service running. Someone who will fight. I get it, it's better to shutdown than to be evil and hand over the keys, but it's much better to fight.