An award-winning legal and technology news site announced on Tuesday that it is shutting down over fears of email surveillance.
In her final post entitled “Forced Exposure,” Groklaw founder Pamela Jones (PJ) writes, “The owner of Lavabit tells us that he’s stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we’d stop too. There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum.” She adds that “ensuring privacy online is impossible.”
Less than two weeks ago, encrypted email service providers Lavabit, whose services were reportedly used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Silent Circle announced they were shuttering their email services rather than be forced to hand over customer data to the U.S. government.
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Explaining why “this is the last Groklaw article,” Jones writes:
“They tell us that if you send or receive an email from outside the US, it will be read. If it’s encrypted, they keep it for five years, presumably in the hopes of tech advancing to be able to decrypt it against your will and without your knowledge,” Jones wrote. But Silent Circle’s Technical Operations Manager Louis Kowolowski explained in a blog post on Friday how even encrypted email is still vulnerable because metadata is still retrievable.
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