We need an NRA for privacy
A software company shuts its secure email service pre-emptively so that they wouldn't be forced to comply with government orders to ... what? insert back doors? hand over encryption keys? What country did this happen in? Soviet Russia? Cuba? Iran? No the United States of America. Truly chilling. I'm talking about Silent Circle. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6183059 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6183352 If this had been about a gun-making/selling company shutting down its operation because they were afraid the government come to them and force them to violate the privacy of their customers, or for example insert, surreptitiously, some sort of tracking device into the guns themselves, the country (and the mainstream media, by the way) would be UP IN ARMS. What we need is a "National Privacy Association" like the
Why it failed
A software company shuts its secure email service pre-emptively so that they wouldn't be forced to comply with government orders to ... what? insert back doors? hand over encryption keys? What country did this happen in? Soviet Russia? Cuba? Iran? No the United States of Ame
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- plg
- Ended
- 2013
- Source
- hackernews