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The Pakistanis just played this stupidly. The article says "The Pakistani government wanted to be able to monitor every message and email sent via its phones, i
by littletimmy 11y ago
The Pakistanis just played this stupidly. The article says "The Pakistani government wanted to be able to monitor every message and email sent via its phones, it said." That's ridiculous, of course no firm would agree.
What you have to do instead is to say you want to have access to records that may help against terror, everything approved by a court of course. Then create a court, make it process as many requests as you want. You appoint the court so it will rubber-stamp whatever you want (you must let 1% requests fail for plausible deniability). Make Blackberry complicit enough that they have no face-saving if they make it public. Viola! You have a spy system going.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThat sounds like it would work in a fake democracy like the U.S.. I bet it would barely get any media coverage unless half a dozen people on the inside gave gory details. Even then, it would probably mostly fizzle out with people watching stuff on Netflix while their government watches them.
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- jrcii 11y agoYou could call such a court something official-sounding, like FISA
- selimthegrim 11y agoThis is a country that executes terrorists already in custody in staged police encounters despite having both a military and a civilian special antiterrorist court system. I don't think they're much for due process.