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So what if they can see that you donated to this pro-constitutional defense fund?
If you want to make a surveillance state less effective, you should generate _more_ noise, not less. When fascism is at risk of taking over, you don't just roll over and take it quietly because you fear they'll know you're against it.
As a person who has Nothing to Hide, I encrypt everything, and will gladly donate here. If we get everybody to use encryption, nobody will be suspect for using it. If you donate here, there's less risk that others will get hassled for donating.
1) Find list of people who you don't like (in this case, for legally donating).
2) Perform illegal searches to find things they have done which are illegal.
3) Find another excuse to perform a nominally legal search ("His tail-light was out. I smelled pot, and when I searched him I discovered a large amount of cash in his wallet.")
4) Arrest him for the activities discovered in 2, but allegedly discovered during 3.
tl;dr: Parallel construction allows for politically motivated searches which can lead to 'unrelated' convictions. You will never even know it happened, you'll just be cursing your bad luck.
2. As a non-Lavabit user, who are they and why should I give them money?
"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." - George W. Bush, Sept 20 2001
if you email a gmail account, or a gmail account emails you, obviously a copy will end up on both, at least temporarily.
I don't see what more they could do, as a provider - all your metadata and emails encrypted properly for you, shut down completely when (the NSA?) comes knocking.
About: http://web.archive.org/web/20130429153529/http://lavabit.com...
Philosophy: http://web.archive.org/web/20130403130816/http://lavabit.com...
Privacy: http://web.archive.org/web/20130403130804/http://lavabit.com...
But that doesn't create an alternative. People have wanted one way farther back than the NSA info dump.
If you want to make a surveillance state less effective, you should generate _more_ noise, not less. When fascism is at risk of taking over, you don't just roll over and take it quietly because you fear they'll annoy you at the border.
As a person who has Nothing to Hide, I encrypt everything, and will gladly donate here. If we get everybody to use encryption, nobody will be suspect for using it. If you donate here, there's less risk that others will get hassled for donating.
Absolutely, which is why I donated.
At some point, we must take a stand - and that stance must be time, money, voice or vote (and preferably all four). If we continue to take no action, we become part of the problem by our submission and tacit endorsement of the abuse of the legal rights of others.
For me, personally, I think it's time to start standing up.
edit: This whole Lavabit thing is so dumb that I'm inclined to think it was a honeytrap designed to waste supercomputing cycles on decrypting random data.