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My favorite part of their response is that they gave the timestamps in unix milliseconds.
by tedivm 5y ago
My favorite part of their response is that they gave the timestamps in unix milliseconds.
- tptacek 5y agoFor anyone curious, the account was created on Dec 1 2020, and last connected this October 13th.
- egberts1 5y agoWas that you, Moxie?
- dcdc123 5y agoAm I the only one sort of bothered by the fact they shared that specific information with the world? It may not seem like much, but that was user data.
- wraptile 5y agoI'm failing to see how this could be useful to anyone.
- tptacek 5y agoIt's potentially useful to the target of the subpoena, who knows when they created their Signal account, and might thus now know that they're under investigation.
- _vvhw 5y agoIt's a form of warrant canary?
- DominikPeters 5y agoMe too. They could have blacked out some of the digits while preserving the milliseconds joke.
- joshuamorton 5y agoThe snark of providing the timestamps as unredacted values was fabulous.
- hsn915 5y agoI don't know if it's a snark. It's probably the right thing to provide legally. It's literally the records they have.
- JustSomeNobody 5y agoI would agree. If you're saying this is the only data I have, give it in the exact form you have it in.
- godelski 5y agoNot only all the records that they have, but it proves that the data isn't meaningful to de-anonymize someone. If they had to redact it we would wonder why and how that information would be useful.
- mminer237 5y agoThe standard is that you "must produce it in a form or forms in which it is ordinarily maintained or in a reasonably usable form or forms." It's probably fine here, but if you store it in binary, you should probably parse it into something human-readable.
- monopoledance 5y agoThe snark is publishing it in the blog post not blacked out. As a side effect the account may or not be warned by this. Not sure, if it’s legal to do so, in the US.
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- cookie_monsta 5y agoIf I were going for true snark here I wouldn't have specified (Unix millis), let them figure it out or come back and ask.
- travisgriggs 5y agoCame here to say just this. It's the final dash on the icing of "politely F yourself". Compliant and accurate but "let me burn up a little bit _your_ time" (pun). Made me smile.