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love it is the in cryptid email provider that Edward snowed in used in order to
communicate with people
and recently it actually shut down and some were wondering why they shut down
and now it kinda have the details about story
now understandably the fed's a immediately went after love a bit to get
metadata
on Edward snowed in they wanted to know exactly who he was sending emails to and
what kind of emails he was sending
up now there were filings that showed that love it was served on June 28th
with the so-called pen register and keep in mind that you don't need any probable
cause to
at Brit get that pen register it's an order requiring it to record and provide
the government with the email from
and two lines on every email as well as the IP addresses used to access the
mailbox
okay so the head a lot but was you know service document
and basically he was told you need to give the fed's as much information as
possible at least the metadata
on Edward snowed in and he basically refused to
UK no total american here i mean he shut down
that his business to make sure that the government would get
your information unbelievable who does that
and he gave the fed's a really hard time the representative love a bit indicated
that love it have the technical capability to the crypt
the information but that law bit did not want to defeat
its ODE system so that was basically their middle finger to the federal
government
like look we have a service here that gives our users
as much privacy is possible we are not going to go against what we promised
them the whole point of this was to make sure you couldn't get the information
now you tell me know you're on the San
I you have to you with information and here's owner allow a bit saying
no you don't understand I'm not going to give it to you
amazing okay right and so look at unfortunately the people who cooperate
with the government whether their legal or illegal orders
offer get away with it in a row awarded to get more government contracts we saw
the case a quest
well the government to them pre-9/11 and said give me all your customer data
illegally without warrants and Joseph not sure their CEO stood up to them
the government went after him to go well as government contracts charged with
insider trading
this at all your stock dropped well what can I do haha right
and just not sure what the job for four and a half years now in this case the
love a bit founder
and other American hero Sanaa I don't care what the consequences are
sorry I'm not giving you the info I think you think about this okay he is
facing contempt of court okay he my face jail time as a result I'm doing what
he's doing
but I do wanna reach you guys a statement from the lawyer for love a bit
because I think that this shows you just how much they valued
privacy and the promises they made to their customers
this is the privacy of love its users are at stake we're not simply speaking
of the target of this investigation
we're talking about the over 400,000 individuals and entities their users
have lobbied for use this service
because they believe their communications are secure by handing
over the keys
the encryption keys in this case they necessarily become
less secure how can I do business with love it ok well
exists a while height no I mean this guy's a
whatever he sets up next time it okay a because here's a guy
who actually delivers first customers are you like apples in like two free
markets here's a guy who say
I promise my customers this and I'm not gonna violate that trust no matter what
exactly now out the judge gets involved a judge Claude and Helton
and he is a senior US a district court judge and he basically says the
government's
clearly entitled to the information they're they're seeking and just because
you all have set up a system that makes that difficult doesn't in any way lessen
the government's right to receive that information just as they could
from any telephone company or any other e-mail source that could provide it
easily
UK so finally left Leveson decides alright fine
I'm gonna comply but he does so in the most difficult way possible
basically giving MeV a circuit middle finger okay so this at this point he
gives them
this print a document and it's an 11 page printout
with four point type he did not give them electric
you know electric data so it's it's a printout and the type is so small
up that there are unable to use it Amanda feds don't know what to do with
it
up so basically the prosecutor said to make you so those keys
the FBI would have to manually input all 2500 characters
and one incorrect key stroke in this laborious process
would render the FBI collection system incapable of collecting secret data
small for you have to work hard to violate our rights or the such a shame
for you
no but let's focus on that for a second like
your the FBI your the FBI
he bright thats all I have to say the FBI like really like your new show
it's a Federal Bureau of Investigation's ray what happened where are you right
but I go that's super hard dude can you make it easier for us
so a no look good for him for signup
a force customers I hope that they don't actually
will find a way to PQ get all 2011 says the characters right
right so that is another problem but I see that's probably
and power the government right this look we can take your
life as you know it away from me we take your freedom away from you
you must comply with our what we've
in this case you to be Tierney otherwise will crush you
I didn't use try to fight it in every way that he can
and you know I and its it is actions are to us are incredibly arsenals
here's an example the government actually crushing a small business
right exactly like the guys who have worked against why are they upset about
all right we're all the guys well I all small business or are gone so one thing
we care about
well as opposed to run you out a business and by the way this is also
remember
the sky doesn't have a cryptid information from al Qaeda
okay it's not like haha I have the Taliban working with the
given in hekmatyar in the Northern Alliance Afghanistan and I have their
phone I won't give it to you
it's a guy Edward stone whose information is already public
right and who embarrass the government so that so there
crushing the small business owner and threatening his
a you know freedom with and so it's a rare day when we give the two strong
label
anyone outside a to it. but they're encryption is
literally too strong for the federal government it is to stand they were too
strong and how they set up so that's a great thing finally
11 send refused to give them an electronic copy of what the judge
ordered
and I just want to close with his final statement because I think that it just
shows you how powerful he is he says
I've been forced to make a difficult decision to become complicit
in crimes against American people or walk away from nearly 10 years of hard
work
by shutting down love it after significant soul-searching
I have decided to suspend operations
Leveson dude set up another business I got your back
look let's do something Friday as so
it's a shame that this is what our government drives us to
and all in pursuit over guy
that has embarrassed them a little bit