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If you're a google employee and you see a gag order and disagree with it you almost certainly have the skills to leak it undetectably such that you can't be pro
by harry8 12y ago
If you're a google employee and you see a gag order and disagree with it you almost certainly have the skills to leak it undetectably such that you can't be prosecuted because there is no evidence.
I wonder, is that the right thing to do? How would you do it technically if you thought it was? Who would you leak it to?
- fpgeek 12y agoEven granting your premise that a Google employee could leak the gag order undetectably (and I'm not confident about that, since the universe of people to investigate would be relatively small), there would still be serious repercussions to deal with. At bottom, there's someone at Google in charge of overseeing the gag order. If the gag order leaks and they can't figure out who's responsible, I'm pretty sure they end up going to jail - if only because a court would have a hard time telling the difference between genuinely not being able to find the leaker and stonewalling / implementing a cover-up.
- harry8 12y agoI'm less cynical. I don't think they can prosecute someone without evidence beyond reasonable doubt. Every single google employee who has to act on the order and be gagged by it has to see the order and verify its authenticity or else their actions would be illegal. "it must be one of these 50 google employees" might well be completely true, but not enough to prosecute any one of them.