MustBeAShill

What is this monolithic government you speak of? Are you saying that the FBI and the NSA are synonymous? I'm sure plenty of FBI investigators would take exception to an accusation like that.

I can play this game too. Dread Pirate Roberts used StackExchange, so therefore StackExchange users cannot be trusted to build websites that don't host drug deals and supposed hitmen.

Are you really alleging that CarrierIQ was installed at the behest of a government?

If you're going to use an appeal to authority, then Bruce Schneier is not the way to go. He's a cryptologist but he does make many unfounded claims.

Isn't the fact the cert was revoked showing that the CA system works? The FBI would love for it to be still chained back to a valid CA.

You were only seconds away from calling folks "sheeple", weren't you ;)

What does massive surveillance have to do with the Lavabit action?

Or run for office yourself. I would vote for a centrist candidate that offered a bill that declared email as sacrosanct as a telephone call or postal mail.

> No - it is a plan that the government doesn't work with service provider and instead demands data and intercepts that "just happen" to let them spy on an entire network.

It's interesting that you attack the FBI when you hear them make an unsubstantiated claim, but you have no problem repeating claims you heard on internet forums. When you make claims like this with certainty, it weakens your position and reveals that you don't know what you're talking about.

Do you mean like how the U.S. Postal service has been recording senders and recipients for decades? It's not a good analogy.

...and a solution that would fail to preserve the chain of evidence. If there's a black box at any point, e.g. Levison produces information and emails it to the investigating officers, the doctrine of "fruit of the poisoned tree" applies.