Warrant for the account of a Lavabit customer(ia600908.us.archive.org)
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Warrant for the account of a Lavabit customer
http://ia600908.us.archive.org/9/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.236204/gov.uscourts.mdd.236204.docket.html
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Why does it need to be about Snowden? We haven't even verified that he actually owned an account.
He most likely did:
>> Snowden invited rights workers to a July meeting from the address "[email protected]," according to a human rights specialist who attended the meeting
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/8/4602966/email-service-used-...
>> Snowden invited rights workers to a July meeting from the address "[email protected]," according to a human rights specialist who attended the meeting
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/8/4602966/email-service-used-...
Greenwald verified it:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/365560955746267137
Yep.
Does this submission intend to discredit Lavabit's decision to shutdown? Looks a bit.. disinfo-ish, but I'd rather give the submitter benefit of the doubt.
Does this submission intend to discredit Lavabit's decision to shutdown? Looks a bit.. disinfo-ish, but I'd rather give the submitter benefit of the doubt.
That was not my intention. I just came across it and thought it was an interesting find.
Despite being completed on 10 June, it was just uploaded earlier today.
Despite being completed on 10 June, it was just uploaded earlier today.
If you notice this does have a gag order attached to it, specifically item 31 in the link you provided. Gag orders aren't just for NSLs.
Exactly. This request specifically asks for protection under 2705(b) which grants a limited gag for up to 90 days if the publication of the warrant execution could lead to destruction of evidence or flight from prosecution. The power granted under 2705(b) last only 90 days and must be reauthorized if it is to be extended.
The scary thing about an NSL is that there is no automatic time limit to the gag order it creates, and due process to request the gag to be lifted is severely limited. In other words, not only don't we know about the NSLs issued, we don't even know when we might get a chance to know about them which makes any oversight of their use practically impossible.
The scary thing about an NSL is that there is no automatic time limit to the gag order it creates, and due process to request the gag to be lifted is severely limited. In other words, not only don't we know about the NSLs issued, we don't even know when we might get a chance to know about them which makes any oversight of their use practically impossible.
This is not what lavabit is shutting down over:
>Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland. That suggests that Levison isn’t a privacy absolutist. Whatever compelled him to shut down now must have been exceptional.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/lavabit-snowden/
>Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland. That suggests that Levison isn’t a privacy absolutist. Whatever compelled him to shut down now must have been exceptional.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/lavabit-snowden/
That's the way it's supposed to work.
The police can and should be able to get warrants to aid in the prosecution of crime, with the oversight of an impartial judge interpreting the validity of the request.
The police can and should be able to get warrants to aid in the prosecution of crime, with the oversight of an impartial judge interpreting the validity of the request.
My guess at the scenario:
This Joey006 warrant was "turn over everything you have for this email". Okey dokey, it's all encrypted, here you go. The thing they shut down over was a request to build in a backdoor that bypasses encryption altogether.
This Joey006 warrant was "turn over everything you have for this email". Okey dokey, it's all encrypted, here you go. The thing they shut down over was a request to build in a backdoor that bypasses encryption altogether.
So a valid warrant with a judge's oversight on the public record? Isn't this what we're arguing should be happening for internet searches?
Is this what they are shutting down over? It seems like its a fairly standard warrant and quite limited in scope for both the seizure and the gag period. I'm not quite sure what 4th amendment fight there would be over this.
This is an old warrant from April of this year. It's highly probably that this is not the reason for the shutdown. We can't know for sure since Lavabit's founder is, according to him, under gag order.
It seems a case about Child Pornography - http://ia800908.us.archive.org/9/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.2362...
A Gag order would have come with a National Security related incident