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Not sure I agree or get your point. Seems like he's doing the best he can to explain what happened without being taken to a secret prison. My guess is they've
by logn 13y ago
Not sure I agree or get your point. Seems like he's doing the best he can to explain what happened without being taken to a secret prison.
My guess is they've gotten one request from the NSA ('give us all your data for everyone... otherwise we will just tap into your fiber lines at ISPs') and one from the FBI ('we are doing some parallel re-construction and it says here we have a warrant for a user by the name of Frosty').
I'm just surprised an admin on the site didn't close the Q&A as non-constructive and speculative :)
- benologist 13y agoThe very boring truth is the feds probably just put the guy's name, usernames, email addresses etc into Google and got a court order to explore certain results. People using SO should be aware of how to google something and able to reach such an obvious conclusion - and this probably happened to 100s or 1000s of sites they encountered and in most other cases since MySpace reached critical mass years ago. The only question is whether they pay someone to do it manually or they paid someone like a SO user to automate it.
- nullc 13y ago> Seems like he's doing the best he can to explain what happened without being taken to a secret prison. National security letters are only supposed to be used for national security, not random drug busts. If they used an NSL it was unlawful. If this was just a sealed request it should be open now that the indictment has been handed down. If it was reasonable and lawful they should be asking for it to be unsealed and the request should be granted.