A friend of mine asked me a question today. The two companies that shut down so far shut down because 1) They couldn’t handle pushing back against the government and were likely already infilitrated by the NSA and likely turned over everything… .and 2) Because they didn’t have the legal resources to fight it.
The bigger providers have TEAMS and BATALLIONS of legal resources. They’re suing the government right now to release information and be more transparent. It took six weeks of silence for us to even hear from the Lavabit guy. Yet , google keeps us up to date on their efforts to reveal more information.
So which would you rather have? Batallions of lawyers, or one guy who MAY or MAY NOT turn your info over? The Lavabit guy made the right decision. How many small businesses that cannot defend themselves with lawyers will just turn it over in silence?
