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It also says that 94% of requests are "Device requests - Law enforcement seeking a stolen device."

• smackfu 11y ago
  The trick is telling the difference between that and: "Device requests - Law enforcement seeking a device they claim is stolen."
  • jfoutz 11y ago
    well, put a number on it. Of the "Device request" class, clearly at least some of them really are stolen. So that can't be zero. In fact, I'd bet the vast majority of those claims are indeed stolen phones. I'll give you P(spy) = .01, which feels plausible, around 140 incidents, but we have zero evidence. For something like P(spy) = .1, 1400 requests, I'd want more evidence. It dosn't need to be particularly good evidence, because i don't hold the NSA side to be particularly good. But, you know, still more than vague comments about the state oppressing a vast number of people with undocumented shady tactics. They've been proven to use undocumented shady tactics in the past, but they also seem pretty bad at keeping that stuff secret for long.