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Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service

Posted on August 18, 2013 by # 1 NWO Hatr

Tech Dirt -by Mike Masnick

from the either-you-help-us-spy-on-people-or-you’re-a-criminal dept

The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more ridiculous, as he explains that the government has threatened him with criminal charges for his decision to shut down the business, rather than agree to some mysterious court order. The feds are apparently arguing that the act of shutting down the business, itself, was a violation of the order:  

… a source familiar with the matter told NBC News that James Trump, a senior litigation counsel in the U.S. attorney’s office in Alexandria, Va., sent an email to Levison’s lawyer last Thursday – the day Lavabit was shuttered — stating that Levison may have “violated the court order,” a statement that was interpreted as a possible threat to charge Levison with contempt of court.

That same article suggests that the decision to shut down Lavabit was over something much bigger than just looking at one individual’s information — since it appears that Lavabit has cooperated in the past on such cases. Instead, the suggestion now is that the government was seeking a tap on all accounts:

Levison stressed that he has complied with “upwards of two dozen court orders” for information in the past that were targeted at “specific users” and that “I never had a problem with that.” But without disclosing details, he suggested that the order he received more recently was markedly different, requiring him to cooperate in broadly based surveillance that would scoop up information about all the users of his service. He likened the demands to a requirement to install a tap on his telephone.

It sounds like the feds were asking for a full on backdoor on the system, not unlike some previous reports of ISPs who have received surprise visits from the NSA.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130816/14533924213/feds-threaten-to-arrest-lavabit-founder-shutting-down-his-service.shtml

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AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Joins Sequoia Capital

AdMob founder Omar Hamoui is joining Sequoia Capital, we’ve learned. Sequoia confirmed that Hamoui is joining the firm as an investment partner and will be starting in a few weeks.

Hamoui’s mobile ad platform AdMob was sold to Google in 2009 for $ 750 million, and Sequoia Capital was one of the first investors in the platform, back when AdMob was a one-man team with Hamoui. After Hamoui left Google, he started the incubator Churn Labs (with which Sequoia partnered, as well) along with AdMob’s first engineer, Mike Rowehl.

Churn Labs spawned a number of startups, including polling company Maybe (acqui-hired by LinkedIn) comic-book reader for the iPad Emanata, and mobile advertising startup Metaresolver (acquired by Millennial Media). He’s also made personal angel investments in Gigwalk, Card.io (acquired by PayPal), and Pocket Gems, among others.

Hamoui explains that he still wanted to be involved with building companies as opposed to taking the traditional VC route after he left Google, which is why he started Churn Labs. But as an angel investor he wasn’t able to really take a meaningful role in the day-to-day work of a startup, and joining a VC firm made sense, especially the firm that originally backed him as a fledgling entrepreneur at AdMob.

“Sequoia is trying to not only build enduring companies, but they really put founder first,” Hamoui tells us. “The firm is in the background but they are part of the grind and put a tremendous amount of work in to help founders build great companies.”

Hamoui recalls when AdMob was considering an offer from Google in 2009, Sequoia and the firm’s lead VC on the deal, Jim Goetz, was the loudest voice against the acquisition. The firm believed that AdMob could be a bigger, even potentially public company. “In retrospect, I think Jim and Sequoia were right to not want to sell,” he adds.

“The last time Omar resided at Sequoia he incubated AdMob. We’re excited to see how he can help founders now that he’ll be sticking around,” said Goetz in a statement.

In terms of what ideas Hamoui is interested in investing in, he says there isn’t a defined focus on what types of companies he’ll be evaluating, but he does still think there is opportunity in mobile ads technology. He’s also bullish on technologies that are changing the real-world economy, and Internet of things, such as companies like Nest, Airbnb and Uber.

Although Hamoui himself has been a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, he maintains that he will still be learning a tremendous amount from Sequoia’s partners. “I want to find and defend things that aren’t huge yet, that people will say will never work, and help bring that to the world,” he says. “Sequoia did this for AdMob, and I want to do this for other entrepreneurs.”

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AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui Joins Sequoia Capital