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They don't really need your real name for a warrant to be effective at identifying you. I don't think that the real name requirement makes any difference to law

They don't really need your real name for a warrant to be effective at identifying you. I don't think that the real name requirement makes any difference to law enforcement.

bigiain 15y ago
Yeah - I don't really expect any company to not fully co-operate with law enforcement showing up with a warrant in hand. That raises two questions though. 1) How prepared should a company be to _require_ a warrant before handing over any of your personal data? There's a big spectrum between "Yes Agent Smith, we'll have that data ready for you as soon as you come back with a warrant", and falling for the "Hi, it's Dave - whats the root password" kind of social engineering trick. 2) Should they store that information at all? What would DuckDuckGo+ look like I wonder? It'd be nice to have a "social network" where you have a high confidence that they can answer "Sorry Agent Smith, we specifically never store that data on any of our users - would you like to see the source code that proved we don't?"
bigiain 15y ago
Yeah - I don't really expect any company to not fully co-operate with law enforcement showing up with a warrant in hand. That raises two questions though. 1) How prepared should a company be to _require_ a warrant before handing over any of your personal data? There's a big spectrum between "Yes Agent Smith, we'll have that data ready for you as soon as you come back with a warrant", and falling for the "Hi, it's Dave - whats the root password" kind of social engineering trick. 2) Should they store that information at all? What would DuckDuckGo+ look like I wonder? It'd be nice to have a "social network" where you have a high confidence that they can answer "Sorry Agent Smith, we specifically never store that data on any of our users - would you like to see the source code that proved we don't?"

They don't really need your real name for a warrant to be effective at identifying you. I don't think that the real name requirement makes any difference to law enforcement.

bigiain 15y ago

Yeah - I don't really expect any company to not fully co-operate with law enforcement showing up with a warrant in hand. That raises two questions though. 1) How prepared should a company be to _require_ a warrant before handing over any of your personal data? There's a big spectrum between "Yes Agent Smith, we'll have that data ready for you as soon as you come back with a warrant", and falling for the "Hi, it's Dave - whats the root password" kind of social engineering trick. 2) Should they store that information at all? What would DuckDuckGo+ look like I wonder? It'd be nice to have a "social network" where you have a high confidence that they can answer "Sorry Agent Smith, we specifically never store that data on any of our users - would you like to see the source code that proved we don't?"

bigiain 15y ago