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While we are on the subject of the NSA.
Tormail was brought down by them a couple of weeks ago after the founder of Freedom hosting was arrested. FBI use the usual rhetoric of looking for nonces which is fine, but you can't help but feel this is just a pretext for what they are really after. The big players behind Silkroad

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/tor-tormail-dark-web-communication-pgp/

Anyone who thinks they are completely safe in the Dark web should think again

Similar thing happened to Lavabit, an encrypted mail service that was said to be Edward Snowden's webmail of choice. Ladar Levison put ten years of his life into building his business until one day he got a knock on the door from the NSA... It seems he was ordered to betray his users or shut up shop. He chose the latter. I'd love to know the full story but the NSA has used anti-terror laws to gag Levison and deny him his constitutional right to free speech.

This makes me sick.