> Lavabit has revealed something incredibly important.
That Ladar Levison is incompetent. The FBI should probably have beat him to death in an alley for fraud.
Because whatever the FBI can do with a search warrant, we must assume the mafia has already done with a rubber hose. In fact, if we apply the parent comment's raving paranoia to the whole system, we find that Levison wept for joy because the FBI was giving him a way to publicly throw in the towel and retire from his mob involvement.
If Levison had been competent, instead of putting on a TSA-style security theater, he would have been using tamper-detecting self-erasing computers, jurisdictional redundancy, pre-distributed certificate revocation lists, etc.
TL,DR: he did this to himself by not following NSA standards.
That Ladar Levison is incompetent. The FBI should probably have beat him to death in an alley for fraud.
Because whatever the FBI can do with a search warrant, we must assume the mafia has already done with a rubber hose. In fact, if we apply the parent comment's raving paranoia to the whole system, we find that Levison wept for joy because the FBI was giving him a way to publicly throw in the towel and retire from his mob involvement.
If Levison had been competent, instead of putting on a TSA-style security theater, he would have been using tamper-detecting self-erasing computers, jurisdictional redundancy, pre-distributed certificate revocation lists, etc.
TL,DR: he did this to himself by not following NSA standards.