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"For its part, the Justice Department has taken a legalistic approach: a 17-page brief it filed last month acknowledges that federal law requires search warrant
by jdrock 16y ago
"For its part, the Justice Department has taken a legalistic approach: a 17-page brief it filed last month acknowledges that federal law requires search warrants for messages in "electronic storage" that are less than 181 days old. But, Assistant U.S. Attorney Pegeen Rhyne writes in a government brief, the Yahoo Mail messages don't meet that definition.
"Previously opened e-mail is not in 'electronic storage,'" Rhyne wrote in a motion filed last month"
Am I missing something here? How is web-based email not in electronic storage? Where is it then?
- btilly 16y agoLawyers who don't understand technology are trying to convince a judge who doesn't understand technology that technology works in impossible ways. News at 11.
- billybob 16y agoIt's in the cloud, silly. See, the way it works is, clouds are flimsy things, so it's easy to just run tubes right through them and it doesn't even hurt. All the poor Justice Department wants is to run its own tube through the cloud before the terrorists do!
- rationalbeaver 16y agoWhat, your email isn't set to 'auto-print-then-delete-upon-open'?
- inerte 16y agoDepends on how you've defined "electronic storage" and its relation to email. Like Bill Clinton whom never had sex with Lewinsky, because sex means two reproductive organs touching and not the mouth. PS: I didn't read the definition, just exemplifying how the legal system (sometimes) works.