It is very common that these things get faked. Especially combined with: urgency (matter of life & death), referenceng laws/penalty if not handled (quickly), r

It is very common that these things get faked. Especially combined with: urgency (matter of life & death), referenceng laws/penalty if not handled (quickly), reference to kaws/penalties if disclosed. Now some poor lawyer has to figure out what to do. Now just heavily increase what you I.agine the scale to be. Those revealed cases are just the tip of the iceberg. As much as I would like to blame Verizon or any other entity: I think the key point is that the way these warrants get handled is totally unsuitable for the internet age. Forgery is usually a crime. So sending a warrant (via paper mail) through a country is sorta safe as you can start chasing the criminals, especially through return addresses. This all changes on the internet. Someone in a different country or a mostly anonymous person can forge and send these warrents at close to zero costs. Enough police stations got hacked to get realistic templates (and sometimes even direct e-mail access). The whole cost/benefit/risk relation shifted in favor of the attacker. And it doesn't help that most countries want to fast-track these requests even more.