> Am I to understand that official orders that instruct telco providers to provide the private communication data of people, are transmitted as smushes of pigme

> Am I to understand that official orders that instruct telco providers to provide the private communication data of people, are transmitted as smushes of pigment on thin pieces of wood-paste, instead of a digitally signed file that the recipient can trivially verify with the ordering entities public key? Was honestly having a difficult time determining (a) if this was sarcasm or (b) you just have no idea of the technical competence of many of these jurisdictions, not to mention the complexity of managing this type of public key verification system for the number of jurisdictions involved.