[liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

[Al Billings]

Of course I know about Lavabit. That’s not what you said though. You said that I was a “compatriot of that service” when I have no association with it. You seemed to presuming some kind of involvement with it on my part. I take it that English isn’t your first language though so perhaps this is one of those language things.


> On Jan 15, 2015, at 4:00 PM, hellekin <hellekin at gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > I’ve never used Lavabit or been associated with it.
> >
> *** I certainly hope you know what I'm talking about.  If not, the
> Lavabit owner preferred to close the service instead of being subjected
> to a gag order and betraying his customers and convictions.  Nothing
> like this happened with other services subjected to such treatment or
> worse.  I won't make you the insult of presuming you didn't hear about
> PRISM as well.