Yeah, this is pretty much bullshit (then again, why is Techcrunch being featured again at the top of HN on this subject of all subjects??). Let's say you have

Yeah, this is pretty much bullshit (then again, why is Techcrunch being featured again at the top of HN on this subject of all subjects??). Let's say you have an actual warrant for an actual investigation, to get all of someone's email or Facebook posts. How does that article expect that information arrives? Probably in some kind of "locked mailbox" and the government has the key. It's the same exact thing, it's just the type of order that compelled the act that's different (at least as far as the only evidence we have is a bullshit "locked mailbox" metaphor...again, this is techcrunch). Therefore, the criticism here should be at the source of FISA authorization and the sources of actual FISA demands. The fact that these companies comply with PATRIOT Act demands -- which they've been fucking telling everyone for years that they have to and that maybe these laws should be revised -- is not some kind of betrayal that they lied about because they said that the NSA doesn't have access to their servers. Just like the local Police Department also has no access to their servers.