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by alansmitheebk 4053 days ago
He was forced to consent to having monitoring hardware installed. When the government demanded that he hand over the encryption keys as well he refused. You can read his side of the story here: http://lavabit.com/

I don't see anything childish about upholding his fiduciary responsibilities to his users and standing up to the agents of a surveillance state which far exceeds even the wildest dreams of the East German Stasi.
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Tomte 4053 days ago
You're wrong.

He was perfectly willing to hand over customer data before Snowden.

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jpetersonmn 4052 days ago
Handing over specific user data when requested is a lot different that handing over your encryption keys though.
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Tomte 4052 days ago
He handed over specific user data for other users, refused to do that in the Snowden case. Only then (and after long stalling) did the US government demand the keS, in order to get the data themselves.

Had he handed over the requested data, just like all the data before, noone would have demanded any keys.

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