Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down

#grave

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.

#censure #email

Affaire Snowden : fermeture subite du service de mails cryptés Lavabit
►http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/08/09/un-service-de-courriels-securise-lie-a-snowden-ferme_3459334_651865.html

« J’ai été contraint de prendre une décision difficile : devenir complice de crimes contre le peuple américain ou abandonner près de dix ans de dur labeur en fermant Lavabit. Après mûre réflexion, j’ai décidé de suspendre les opérations. En l’état actuel des choses, je ne peux pas raconter ce qui m’est arrivé ces six dernières semaines, même si j’ai par deux fois fait les demandes nécessaires ».

et paf, Silent Circle ferme aussi son service de mail sécurisé :
▻http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/to-our-customers

pendant ce temps l’argent afflue vers le #crowdfunding de mailpile ▻http://mailpile.is

un commentaire sur #mailpile :

Trystero’s e-mail account – Mailpile ! | LibrarianShipwreck
▻http://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/trysteros-e-mail-account-mailpile

“Let no one imagine that there is a mechanical cure for this mechanical disease.” (Mumford, 50)

Those who care about privacy and the idea of an “open Internet” have an obligation to match their rhetoric with action, and supporting projects like Mailpile is important for those reasons. Nevertheless, from Mailpile to Tor to the Fairphone, all of these technological solutions bind us to the technological systems from which many of our current problems arise. Unless a nuanced and ongoing critique of technological society can be advanced and spread we will inevitably find ourselves back here again, pondering what “safe” service will provide us the privacy we desire and how much we can afford to contribute towards those goals.

put your deeds where you mouth is ; #dissonance_cognitive

Unless a nuanced and ongoing critique of technological society can be advanced and spread we will inevitably find ourselves back here again

#critique_techno #Islande

▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/lavabit-encrypted-email-service-shuts-down-cant-say-why

Merci @fil pour l’article du « librarian Shipwreck », visiblement un bon site anglo.

Email service used by Snowden shuts itself down, warns against using US-based companies | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/09/lavabit-shutdown-snowden-silicon-valley

Lavabit has taken an impressive and bold stand against the US government, sacrificing its self-interest for the privacy rights of its users. Those inclined to do so can return that support by helping it with lawyers’ fees to fight the US government’s orders, via this paypal link provided in the company’s statement.

One of the most remarkable, and I think enduring, aspects of the NSA stories is how much open defiance there has been of the US government. Numerous countries around the world have waved away threats, from Hong Kong and Russia to multiple Latin American nations. Populations around the world are expressing serious indignation at the NSA and at their own government to the extent they have collaborated. And now Lavabit has shut itself down rather than participate in what it calls “crimes against the American people”, and in doing so, has gone to the legal limits in order to tell us all what has happened. There will undoubtedly be more acts inspired by Snowden’s initial choice to unravel his own life to make the world aware of what the US government has been doing in the dark.

Zimmermann’s Law: PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder on the surveillance society
▻http://gigaom.com/2013/08/11/zimmermanns-law-pgp-inventor-and-silent-circle-co-founder-phil-zimmermann-on

Menaces officielles contre Lavabit.
▻http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-lavabitcom-owner-i-could-be-arrested-for-resisting-