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{Tech law blog Groklaw shuts down, cites surveillance concerns}
Subscribe Today to the MonitorClick Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition“The owner of Lavabit tells us that he’s stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we’d stop too,” writes Ms. Jones, referencing Lavabit’s shutdownearlier this August. “There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum.”Groklaw was Jones’ first foray into blogging, according to aninterviewJones gave in 2003 several months after founding the site. As the blog took off, it became an award-winning blog recognized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Bar Association. Groklaw was funded by the Free and Open-Source Software community, according to its website. Groklaw also relied heavily on user collaboration for its content,[url=http://woolrich-outlet-online.blogspot.com]woolrich jackets[/url], a factor that played into Jones’ decision to close the site.RECOMMENDED: How well do you know the world of spying? Take our CIA and NSA quiz.“I can’t do Groklaw without your input,” writes Jones in the blog entry. “It was really a collaborative effort, and there is now no private way, evidently, to collaborate.”Jones likened her frustrations with government surveillance to the time when a thief broke into her apartment, took small pieces of family jewelry, went through her underwear drawer, and then left. “I feel like that now, knowing that persons I don’t know can paw through all my thoughts and hopes and plans in my emails with you,” Jones writes to her readers.Groklaw joins the ranks of Lavabit and Silent Circle –another encrypted e-mail service provider – as the three notable online resources whose shutdowns have garnered public attention. Lavabit owner and operator Ladar Levison did not give an exact reason for the site’s shutdown and stated in a letter announcing the site's closure that he was not allowed to by law. News that Edward Snowden was one of the e-mail provider’s clients, and Levison’s promise to appeal to the Fourth Circuit, fueled suspicion that the site closed while they fight a gag order from the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court. Silent Circle followed suit to preempt any federal information requests, according to a company statement.1|2NextAbout these ads
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