Honest businesses are shutting down rather than participate in NSA spying on YOU

For all the talk of transparency, the Obama administration sure does prosecute the hell out of whistle-blowers. For all the talk of hope and change and trusting him, he sure has embraced the rapidly expanding security structure his predecessor (Dick Cheney) built.

It’s a basic tenet of trust: if you do not trust me, don’t expect me to trust you. You don’t have to be an ISECOM Certified Trust Analyst to understand this.

So it sucks that email provider Lavabit chose to shut down rather than open its users encrypted email to the Feds. Provider Silent Circle followed within 24 hours. Lavabit founder Ladar Levison, who emphatically DOES know about email, has decided to stop using it at all. And loudly broadcasting that any business with ties to the US (such as operating on US soil) must repeat MUST NOT BE TRUSTED. Your private life, your personal communications, your comings and goings, your friends – they have all been pwned. By the Feds.

“There’s information that I can’t even share with my lawyer, let alone with the American public. So if we’re talking about secrecy, you know, it’s really been taken to the extreme, and I think it’s really being used by the current administration to cover up tactics that they may be ashamed of,” Levison said.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/lavabit-founder-under-gag-order-speaks-out-about-shut-down-decision/

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