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

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 20:24:38 EDT 2016


On 3/17/16, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> 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.

AAPL's stock price is up about 12+% on moderate volume
in the 4+ weeks since the filing, more than enough time to
for the news to date to reach price discovery.


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