Princeton's Ed Felten has defended Lavabit's right to resist court orders. "At Lavabit, an employee, on receiving a court order, copies user data and gives it to
an outside party—in this case, the government," he wrote in a blog post. "Meanwhile, over at Guavabit, an employee, on receiving a bribe or extortion threat from a drug cartel, copies user data
and gives it to an outside party—in this case, the drug cartel. From a purely technological standpoint, these two scenarios are exactly the same." Lavabit shut down in August after receiving
pressure from the government to share information about its users.Read the whole story at Boing Boing »
