It is also a lot easier to understand than most other legal
documents...presumably because the owner of Lavabit and his lawyers have
been through the harrowing process of law and taking on the US
government in this area over some considerable time. USG legal system
totally destroyed his business, when there are other ways of gathering
information. Well worth reading, in my view...Not too long and makes
some interesting points on servitude and compulsion under Amendment 13
of the US Constitution. I am much surprised in this case how easy the
arguments are to read and make sense of. Whether they are correct in
those arguments, their interpretations of those arguments and the
relevance of those arguments, is of course, a moot point...which,
hopefully the learned judge will decypher and make common sense
judgements upon, though common sense, particularly in politics and
security appear to be somewhat lacking in American society today. All
those assholes squeaking at election time, make a lot of noise, when
they are straining to find joined up thinking...:-) . Isn't election
time wonderful? I always thought that elections in the U.S. were
democratic and supportive of individual freedoms, with lines carefully
drawn for the promotion of candidates in the electoral process, but it
appears that amongst the two main political parties, there are all sorts
of barriers, and these are not only financial ones, but blocks of votes
exercised by the "big yins", to prevent clever assholes, with no money
but plenty of sense and ideas from defeating the stupid with too much
money and dollar coins for eyeballs, but there you are...
One learns sumfink new every day... :-).
ATB
Dougie.
On 05/03/2016 11:17, John Young wrote:
Lavabit's brief for Apple has the gutsiest skin in the game, going solo,
no joining a pack. None of the fattest of strutting corporate cats rushed
to defend Lavabit against absence of FBI corporate-coddling,
Congress-stroking, corraling the frightened herd for taking down
mavericks like Lavabit and Snowden.
https://cryptome.org/2016/03/usg-apple-102-105.pdf
