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This seems like the more interesting question. Whether Mayer went around him willingly or by legal requirement is basically unanswerable, except to note that t

This seems like the more interesting question. Whether Mayer went around him willingly or by legal requirement is basically unanswerable, except to note that the email team chose to do the same. There's not much to say when we can't tell collusion from compulsion. The question of accidental discovery, by contrast, is a fascinating one. A gag order couldn't possibly compel someone who made the discovery on their own (for the simple reason that they wouldn't know about it to be compelled). So circumventing the security team, instead of simply including them in the NSL, raises an interesting discussion about the nature of the NSL and why the matter was kept from Stamos' team.

snowwrestler 10y ago
> A gag order couldn't possibly compel someone who made the discovery on their own (for the simple reason that they wouldn't know about it to be compelled). If the company was gagged, I don't see how it would matter whether company employees knew about it in advance or found it by accident. Either way, the company is still gagged. Also, while your comment makes common sense, national security restrictions don't have to make sense to be legal. For example there is information that is "born classified," meaning that even if it is independently developed, totally separate from the defense apparatus, it's still considered classified!
- ryanlol 10y ago
  That particular employee may not be. Obvious solution is to have a page ran by some reasonably trustworthy organisation where people can report these breaches before passing them on to their superiors.