[CompSecSem] Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't - Slashdot

[Ian Batten]

Yeah, sorry, while putting the to-list cc back into a departmental mailing list I confused two similarly named lists.  This wasn't meant for ukcrypto.  Apologies to all.

ian

On 15 Aug 2013, at 14:05, "Caspar Bowden (lists)" <lists at casparbowden.net> wrote:

> On 08/15/13 12:31, Ian Batten wrote:
>> On 15 Aug 2013, at 12:11, Mark Ryan <M.D.Ryan at cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> There is a (to me) fascinating video interview with Ladar Levison, the founder and operator of Lavabit, and another recipient of a "national security letter": http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/13/exclusive_owner_of_snowdens_email_service It also contains a 2005 clip of then-senator Barack Obama giving a different opinion on national security letters than the one he appears to have today. 
>> Labour, prior to the 1997 general election, said of pretty well all forms of interception, key escrow and the like that they were wrong in principle and unworkable in practice. A group called "Scientists for Labour"
> 
> actually it was me wot got SfL into the crypto issue.
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>> , who included people like Roger Needham, endorsed this policy document
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> Don't know if Roger involved via Labour. The pledge against escrow hatched by well-known Net journalist.
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>> and said that their off-the-record discussions confirmed that Labour believed it and would live by it.
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>> Within about six months,
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> See for more http://www.fipr.org/rip/Cryptfree.htm
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>> Jack Straw as Home Secretary had launched the discussions which led to RIPA, with the earlier drafts far scarier than the result.
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>> The same thing happened with Clinton over "Clipper" and key escrow.  Presumably likewise for Obama.
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> In case of interest (me) at http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/prism-the-eu-must-take-steps-to-protect-cloud-data-from-us-snoopers-8701175.html
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> Caspar