[liberationtech] Naive Question

[coderman]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:52 PM, R. Jason Cronk <rjc at privacymaverick.com> wrote:
> Anything which potentially signaled your receipt of an NSL would be grounds
> for prosecution under the gag-order. This is what the prosecutor was
> alluding to when he signaled that Lavabit's shut down was tantamount to a
> violation because his shut down essentially communicated the fact that he
> was under a court order to do something which he couldn't talk about.


if this is prosecuted, and upheld, it would signal the death of for
profit or non-profit (e.g. incorporated) services for any private
communication.

this assumes the NSL provisions do not hold against individuals in a
private capacity...