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What are the consequences of telling NSA "no"? Is there any law that permits the USG to compel any action, other than those legal requests pursuant to an acti
by daxorid 9y ago
What are the consequences of telling NSA "no"?
Is there any law that permits the USG to compel any action, other than those legal requests pursuant to an active investigation, on the part of private companies?
- JackFr 9y agoHow about the the General Services Administration saying "We won't buy, nor allow contractors to use, any printers that don't comply." If I were a manufacturer, that would be compelling.
- cosinetau 9y agoThat would be too easy though. Since we're acting as the toughest game in town, why not also bully people?
- nobodyorother 9y agoNSLs? With them, any action is intimately related to active investigations, because they're completely without oversight.
- rbritton 9y agoThe closest I know of is the All Writs Act [0] that surfaced during the FBI vs Apple situation resulting from the San Bernadino shooting. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act
- fnordfnordfnord 9y agoIf you're not squeaky clean, then they do to you what they did to Joseph Naccio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio