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how is yahoo's action different from a court-ordered pen register? I respect the lavabit guy for his decision to implode, but you can't expect a large public c

• michaelmrose 10y ago
  Presumably in that traditionally an actual normal court that is accountable to the public would have to based on evidence approve a warrant naming particularly the individuals and why and for a finite duration of time. This is fundamentally different from building a tool that would allow them to access any or all of your customers communications forever with no further oversight forever based on a secret courts request or in fact sometimes nothing more than administrative request or even breaking in.
• jwtadvice 10y ago
  It is significant in the sense of scope (they searched everyone's email), in the sense of legality (this wasn't court ordered, indeed it didn't come through corporate attorneys), in the sense of reasonable suspicion (there was none), and in the sense of scale (data at scale can be used to do things that individual bits of data can not).