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Groklaw shuts down rather than risk feds snooping through e-mail

Posted by BernardSwiss on Aug 21, 2013 9:58 AM EDT · 5 comments
Ars Technica; By Jon Brodkin

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Groklaw, the 11-year-old website devoted to covering legal disputes related to open source software, has announced it will shut down rather than risk the government reading its e-mail. Groklaw founder Pamela Jones (commonly known as "PJ") wrote today that she is not confident the government won't someday be able to crack her encrypted e-mails. "There is no way to do Groklaw without e-mail," she wrote. "So this is the last Groklaw article."

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Comments (5)

number6x · Aug 21, 2013 10:00 AM EDT

The link goes to a barnes and noble article: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/barnes-noble-not-giv...

Link should be: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/groklaw-shuts-dow...

-Sean

Thanks for the fix

Scott_Ruecker · Aug 21, 2013 10:05 AM EDT

Fixed

BernardSwiss Story submitter · Aug 21, 2013 7:38 PM EDT

Sorry about that -- there were two articles I found interesting... And I got distracted while dealing with them.) I shall strive to be more careful).

caitlyn · Aug 22, 2013 4:50 PM EDT

You mean you're not perfect? I'm shattered. Absolutely shattered.

BernardSwiss Story submitter · Aug 22, 2013 7:17 PM EDT

Not as shattered as I was, I'll warrant :P

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