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Obviously people started to investigate this hack too much, so the US government forced Apple using a NSL to write a letter to Congress denying that any such ha
by 21 8y ago
Obviously people started to investigate this hack too much, so the US government forced Apple using a NSL to write a letter to Congress denying that any such hack occured. The Congress probably knows the truth, but they are also under NSL.
Expect letters to Congress from Amazon and the 30 other hacked companies.
It's the only way to kill this story, after they made the unbelivable mistake of forgetting to NSL Bloomberg despite having requests from them to comment on this story for months. Somebody is getting Guantanamoed over this slip.
- lucozade 8y agoThis is the only possible explanation. Other than the other, much more plausible, one.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> This is the only possible explanation There are a lot of possible explanations. As someone who finds both Bloomberg and Apple credible, this is potentially far more interesting than “one of them is totally lying.”
- Karunamon 8y agoZoom in a bit and forget about Bloomberg's credibility as a whole and look just at the journalists involved in this story. This isn't their first time hyping up garbage, but it's a lot more audacious: https://twitter.com/RobertMLee/status/1049617855396933632 https://twitter.com/RobertMLee/status/1049617855396933632
- humanrebar 8y agoCongress reports to nobody but their constituents. They cannot be "under NSL".
- moftz 8y agoNo, but if members that have security clearances were clued in on it, they would not be able to divulge anything and would be compelled to say nothing.
- humanrebar 8y agoCompelled by what?
- moftz 8y agoCompelled by the lifetime NDA the government makes you sign.
- jsjohnst 8y agoNSL can not compel you to lie, it can only compel you to stay silent. There’s decently extensive case law to support that.
- ben_w 8y agoI’m not a lawyer, I’ve merely read news stories about how NSLs and associated court cases are overly-secret (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit). Given what was reported in the Lavabit case, how sure are you that there is no secret caselaw which does, in fact, require companies to lie?
- jsjohnst 8y agoLook up the case law surrounding “compelled speech” if you’d like more details.