Heh - talk about being hoist with his own petard - from Borepatch:
If NSA strikes him down he will become more powerful than they can possibly imagine
The secure email service Lavabit shut itself down rather than expose its customers to court ordered NSA surveillance. And so Lavabit's founder decided to build it better, so that it would be impossible for NSA to do it again:
DefCon Lavabit founder Ladar Levison will within six months carve out a military-grade email service from the ashes of Ed Snowden's favourite email client.
As many of you will remember, Levison killed the service to prevent his clients' information from getting into the clutches of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Dark Mail has since expanded to include the Magma email server and the Volcano Mozilla Thunderbird desktop client, and has been re-badged as the Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME).
The platform broke up email headers encrypting each piece before it was sent and was built so that no single service could hold all of the data - a bid to shake off further Lavabit-style requests from government spy agencies.
The NSA has shot itself in the foot. Not only have many people in the security community refused to cooperate with them anymore, some very smart folks have chosen to actively try to make NSA's life more difficult.
Me, I don't expect that NSA can possibly reform itself, and likely it will double down on its counter productive domestic snooping. That will keep pouring gasoline on this fire, leading to even less cooperation and even more active monkey wrenching.
Smart guys there at Ft. Meade.
Title and body quote? 'Cmon now...
Remember, all that encryption does is trade legibility for time. Given enough resources, anything can be broken but what if 40% of all emails were so well encrypted as to take a year to decrypt. Defeats the purpose.
I realize that we are fighting an asymmetrical war here but we must not forget our Constitutional Rights. Get the warrant -- it is not that difficult a proceedure...