[Cryptography] DoJ/FBI's "nuclear"/Lavabit option

Ladar Levison ladar at lavabitllc.com
Thu Mar 17 19:17:46 EDT 2016



On 3/17/2016 3:58 PM, John Young wrote:
> At 01:05 PM 3/17/2016, you wrote:
>> FYI --
>> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160316/15292633927/how-apple-could-lose-winning-dojs-next-move-could-be-worse.shtml
>>
>
>> The court then ordered Levison to provide a more useful electronic
>> copy, which then resulted in the $5,000/day fine for failing to live
>> up to that, and then the closure of the site.
>
> An Apple fine commensurate with Lavabit's revenue should end the
> daredevilry with investors' stakeholdings. Judges really like to
> takedown justice defiers as warning to potential emulators. Try to
> wear Levison's boots with a red dot on forehead.
>
> Apple revenue for Q1 2016 was $75B. A fine of $1B a day should induce
> Apple's investors to stampede toward disinvestment, Apple to
> bankruptcy minimization, fragmented ATT, entrapped like RSA, Microsoft
> and IBM. Before the foot shooting calamity, Tim Cook is ordered to
> take a hike with platinum buyout to counsel risk-averse VCs aboard
> world-circling craft of detumescent billionaire playboys enjoying
> quasi-carnal pleasure in climate change, disease and population
> control, retro-2001 space travel, moist-dreaming of POTUS.

For it to be a fair comparison the contempt charge would name Tim Cook
personally, such that even if Apple became insolvent, he'd still have to
pay the fine.

Also noteworthy, while the government did get a search warrant for the
source code, they dropped that request after we indicated we planned to
it, and I had shutdown the service. In other words, why fight for source
code that no longer has value.

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