Lavabit

Hushmail DINE Architecture 10 min in DINE DEFCON 10 40 min in DINE DEFCON 12 min in Dine DEFCON 12 30 min in Dine DEFCON Apparent Redaction Failure Leads To Government Confirming Target Of Lavabit Investigation The US government has just undercut one of its own gag orders. It imposed one on Lavabit after demanding its source code and encryption key. It has revealed the target of its demands from the encrypted email provider -- a person everyone already knew was the target, but one that wasn't likely to be officially confirmed for years to come. Kim Zetter at Wired has the details: Ladar Levison, owner of the now defunct email service, has been forbidden since then, under threat of contempt and possibly jail time, from identifying who the government was investigating. In court documents from the case unsealed in late 2013, all information that could identify the customer was redacted.But federal authorities recently screwed up and revealed the secret themselves when they published a cache of case documents but failed to redact one identifying piece of information about the target: his email address, Ed_Snowden@lavabit.com. Sometimes inadvertent transparency is the best transparency.