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Submission + - Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys (wired.com)

Submitted by jest3r on Thursday October 03, 2013 @08:51AM

jest3r writes: Lavabit won a victory in court and were able to get the secret court order unsealed. The ACLU's Chris Soghoian called it the nuclear option. The court order revealed the FBI demanded Lavabit turn over their root SSL certificate, something that would allow them to monitor the traffic of every user of the service.

Lavabit offered an alternative method to tap into the single user in question but the FBI wasn't interested.

Lavabit could either comply or shut down. As such no US company that relies on SSL encryption can be trusted with sensitive data. Everything from Google to Facebook to Skype to your bank account is only encrypted by SSL keys, and if the FBI can force Lavabit to hand over their SSL key or face shutdown they can do it to anyone.

Submission + - US Government Says You Don't Own Your Cloud Data so We Can Access It At Any Time (eff.org) 2

Submitted by jest3r on Friday November 02, 2012 @11:00AM

jest3r writes: Yesterday the EFF filed a brief proposing a process for the Court in the Megaupload case to hold the government accountable for the actions it took (and failed to take) when it shut down Megaupload's service and denied third parties access to their property. Many businesses used Megaupload's cloud service to store and share files not related to piracy. The government is calling for a long, drawn-out process that would require individuals or small companies to travel to courts far away and engage in multiple hearings just to get their own property back. The government's argument that you lose all your property rights by storing your data on the cloud could apply to Amazon's S3 or Google Apps or or Apple iCloud services as well.

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