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Hackers gaining power of subpoena via fake “emergency data requests" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084275

• unixbane 4y ago
  It's funny how things like this surprise people, as if the legal system is a trustworthy blob on their architecture graph. One fundamental thing about it is that it's made up of different people and a huge amount of people, all with differing levels of competence (so not only is it untrustworthy, but it can't even consistently do whatever its goals are) as opposed to having any coherent goal or ideology.