Texas-based Lavabit service has shut down but said legal reasons prevented it explaining why. Correspondents say Lavabit appears to have been in a legal battle to stop US officials accessing customer details. In addition, secure communications firm Silent Circle has shut its email service because messages cannot be kept wholly secret.
What does this mean ?
Well, "Legal Reasons" means the USA Government , since they are based in Texas. It is there for clear that the USA Government has shut them down. It is also clear that the USA Government has muzzled them and threatened them to prevent them from saying why.
Why do we care ?
That the USA is shutting down services it cannot spy on is worrying. That Google, Yahoo, and most of the services we use are USA based is even more worrying. It may be time to start deliberately looking for non-usa providers for ... well...everything.
The part where no one is allowed to say what the USA government is doing or they get tossed in jail is particularly worrisome.
Apparently , USA has become the new Communist Russia. Communist USA, it seems. Throwing in jail all political opponents. Muzzling the press. Oh , and they recently decided to ignore a copyright decision that they lost because it would be bad for their economy.
I don't think we should be trading with these people anymore. I think we need to cut all links.
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