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Perhaps. Perhaps not. Either way, you make it messy for them and you do probably defeat their primary objective, which is secrecy. How do you think they'd re
by moxious 10y ago
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Either way, you make it messy for them and you do probably defeat their primary objective, which is secrecy.
How do you think they'd respond? With SEAL Team 6 while keeping everything quiet?
When the government shows up to force you to turn over the information, no violence is required, but you can make sure the newspapers are there when it happens, and that the knowledge of it happening is not restricted to a few execs, keeping key technical people in the dark (as happened at Yahoo)
- wfunction 10y ago> How do you think they'd respond? With SEAL Team 6 while keeping everything quiet? Possibly by taking you to court and convicting you of breaking some law by refusing to provide the information the first time, perhaps even completely independently of whether or not the order was actually constitutional. I can imagine lots of bad outcomes that would land you in jail without giving you the chance to take the actual issue to court.
- therein 10y agoBut when dealing with a corporate entity, who do you go after? Since this sort of coercion seems to only work on an individual level, going after the entire corporate entity won't invoke the same emotional response.
- wfunction 10y agoI don't know how the law works. But my completely-unfounded guess is that whoever is supposed to authorize this and who is refusing would be the one convicted.
- mirimir 10y agoSo maybe they ought to be anonymous: http://www.cryptohippie.net/AnonAdmin.html http://www.cryptohippie.net/AnonAdmin.html
- brokenmachine 10y agoYou're giving system administrator status to an anonymous person on the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
- mirimir 10y agoYou give them limited access and rights, to do what you want them to do. Here, they would have access to communications with government agencies, ability to tweet users or groups thereof, and perhaps responsibility for canary management.
- brians 10y agoNSLs are addressed to, and claim to compel, an individual.
- mirimir 10y agoThey have secret courts for that.