I'm not sure how beneficial it is to ask for salted password hashes, when a simple change in the wording of the request to a judge (or the FISA court rubber sta

I'm not sure how beneficial it is to ask for salted password hashes, when a simple change in the wording of the request to a judge (or the FISA court rubber stamp factory) would yield an order for the provider to capture and turn over the plaintext password the next time the user logs in. US judges will do almost anything they are asked, especially if the requesting agency uses the "T" word. Either these agencies don't know what to ask for, or they are already doing this and no one has written a story about it.