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> 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
by 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.