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FBI to Lavabit Founder: ‘Do You Really Think Users Trust You Over Us?’

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Geoffrey McLatchey * The Daily Caller

The FBI fined, threatened, and forced Ladar Levison to suspend the operation of his secure email service, Lavabit LLC, telling the entrepreneur that his users were more likely to trust the government than him.

This year, the government demanded that Levison turn over his private SSL (secure socket layer) so that the FBI could investigate a single user account allegedly belonging to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

“By taking these keys from me they were able to unlock everything coming in and out…gaining access to email content, passwords, and credit card numbers,” Levison told The Daily Caller in an interview. The keys allowed the FBI to “masquerade” as Levison himself, giving the agency administrative access to his system.

“They were completely unwilling to provide any kind of transparency back to me to assure me that the only information they were collecting was the information on this one specific user,” said Levison. “Users trusted me to protect their private information and I was essentially opening up the doors wide for the feds to come in and take whatever they wanted.”

Read more at The Daily Caller: 

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/29/fbi-to-lavabit-founder-do-you-really-think-users-trust-you-over-us/#ixzz2jDJDYIpD



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    • caribbean critic

      Who can now trust anything the alphabet agencies or the the congenital liars in government say and do ever again!

    • gerryd weldeer

      FBI to Lavabit Founder: ‘Do You Really Think Users Trust You Over Us?’

      Uh, ….yep

      Here’s what the FBI missed:

      Finally naming names:

      youtube:

      Who Was Really Behind the 9/11 Attacks?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWLis-TVB2w&feature=share&list=UU7TvL4GlQyMBLlUsTrN_C4Q

      Published on Sep 6, 2013

      Problem, reaction, solution (controlling it at every step).

      History, ‘real’ history and evil.

      Learn History with Philip Zelikow!

      http://youtu.be/sQtvhpOLUmM

      How Do We Prosecute 9/11? – Questions For Corbett #009
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYweX04ty6Q&feature=share&list=UU7TvL4GlQyMBLlUsTrN_C4Q

      youtube:

      9/11 Truth and the Way Forward: Starting a Real Criminal Investigation

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-SK_nN8Ko&feature=share&list=UU7TvL4GlQyMBLlUsTrN_C4Q

      Published on Sep 10, 2013

      Architects, engineers, scientists, physicists and demolition experts speak out:

      youtube: AE911Truth Experts Speak Out

      http://youtu.be/YW6mJOqRDI4

      Only Aired Once About PENTAGON !!!

      http://youtu.be/mcWT2lQszEE

      FireFighters for 9/11 Truth Speak Out!

      http://youtu.be/YEzGZzRZMGk

    • greenghost

      That is why you can’t rely on encription schemes to protect your data. The NSA already has the backdoor passwords to all the major encreptions.

    • Truth Prevails

      FBI and CIA and all other secret government agencies should be held accountable for their known criminal activities of trauma-based (torture, sex abuse pedophilia, slave trafficking of children, assassins, etc.) MKUltra mind-control ~ exposed by Senator Frank Church in Congressional Hearing ~ but continued, due to One World Order agenda for depopulation and control of the world (research provides credible, countless confirmation).

      Many bully police are bought off and are known to traffic in drugs, etc. Our government has run amuck and Obama (like the Bush regime) is an obamanation against God and Christians!

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