VPN company shuts down after Lavabit case demonstrates threat of state-ordered, secret self-sabotage

earnestinebrown · October 22, 2013, 8:02pm

It’s time to kill NSLs along with the secrecy and conscription that goes with it.

The economic losses because of this spying on Americans and the world will be astronomical. I can image a world where tech doesn’t happen in America.

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