mldonahue

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   by mldonahue 5y ago

   Lol woah - maybe I should check HN more than once a week. Let's dive in!! 1. “I doubt they [international agencies] send the kind of subpoenas…” - It’s a gross display of willful ignorance to assume things just so it agrees with your o
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   by mldonahue 5y ago

   Can you elaborate how you think a tool like this is neither ethical nor transparent? And why is it bad the writer is ex-FBI? You appear to be passionate about the issue at hand, but your knowledge on this process seems to be limited. 1. Not
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   by mldonahue 5y ago

   For anyone who wants to know more about how companies can more ethically, and transparently, engage with law enforcement/governments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156465 Establishing a best practice for publi
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   by mldonahue 5y ago

   Thanks for the comment! I see what you're saying, but I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding - Kodex was made to make things easy for the company, not the government. Agencies are never deterred from reaching out to companies
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   by mldonahue 5y ago

   Companies provide points of contact for these types of legal process to be served on them - it is akin to the registered agent process. The FBI and other govt agencies do not have the authority to dictate how a company accepts this legal pr
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   by mldonahue 5y ago

   To answer your question about the market, there are ~30k companies that are vulnerable to data requests in the US alone. At $100k price point, that is roughly a $3B market
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   by mldonahue 5y ago

   I'm glad you brought that up! I think that is the most common misconception with this problem, and that is why it has gone so long without a solution. You are correct in that the biggest players (i.e. big tech) are the ones who have th
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   by mldonahue 5y ago

   We do already offer company specific transparency reports, so they can analyze the threats on their platform and the agencies investigating them! We have also been thinking more generically about offering a public transparency report that d
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   by mldonahue 5y ago

   Great questions! The hardest part was probably getting our initial customer. This is inherently sensitive company info, and getting the initial social proof & trust from a big name opened a lot of doors for others to trust us. We have a
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    by mldonahue 5y ago

    Great way of looking at it - good to have on deck even if you haven't yet gotten a data request, because you never know when the "flood gates" might open and bog your company down.
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    by mldonahue 5y ago

    Thanks! So surprising how hard it is for companies to handle these requests. Love to learn more about your experience with it!
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    by mldonahue 5y ago

    We are Matt and Danny, the founders of Kodex ( https://www.kodex.us ). Kodex makes it easy for companies to process and respond to subpoenas from governments around the world. Agencies, like the FBI, subpoena user data from thousa