The entire episode was CAUSED by Levison's failure, and
flat-out incompetence, to implement a simple SMTP archive
feature and then his attempted fleecing of the American
taxpayer by charging $2000 to provide that information.
Yeah, the author seems to be coming at this from completely the wrong angle.
I don't think anyone, the FBI, Lavabit, the NSA, or the non-technical public, is under any illusion that it's fairly simple to route around the at-rest encryption. We all KNOW Levison was just stalling with his 'technical reasons' arguments.
He didn't want to give information over to the NSA, and bluffed for as long as he could, then finally shut the service down in protest. That's obvious right? The author of the article doesn't seem to have figured that out.
He also seems to accept government intrusion into private email as a fact of life, and doesn't seem to comprehend why that might be a bad thing. I can't tell if he's just trying to make a point, or he genuinely doesn't understand people's outrage.
This is an article written by someone who clearly does not know what the fuck. It's pretty remarkable that someone can be so profoundly ignorant with the amount of information literally available at his fingertips.
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The entire episode was CAUSED by Levison's failure, and flat-out incompetence, to implement a simple SMTP archive feature and then his attempted fleecing of the American taxpayer by charging $2000 to provide that information.
Why does this feel like a personal attack?
Yeah, the author seems to be coming at this from completely the wrong angle.
I don't think anyone, the FBI, Lavabit, the NSA, or the non-technical public, is under any illusion that it's fairly simple to route around the at-rest encryption. We all KNOW Levison was just stalling with his 'technical reasons' arguments.
He didn't want to give information over to the NSA, and bluffed for as long as he could, then finally shut the service down in protest. That's obvious right? The author of the article doesn't seem to have figured that out.
He also seems to accept government intrusion into private email as a fact of life, and doesn't seem to comprehend why that might be a bad thing. I can't tell if he's just trying to make a point, or he genuinely doesn't understand people's outrage.
This is an article written by someone who clearly does not know what the fuck. It's pretty remarkable that someone can be so profoundly ignorant with the amount of information literally available at his fingertips.