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Security, Due Process and Convenience

Posted by timothy on from the give-me-mumble-or-give-me-death dept.

teambpsi writes: "CNN is running an article about ISPs' concern over having law enforcement present during a court-ordered search. Since we are an ISP, I can understand the concern, however, also being a privacy freak, I think it adds a certain weight to the decision of wether to file the search in the first place. It adds a certain levity. I'm not sure what percentage of these search warrants are unnecessary, but I think that having due process in place is important. Opinions?"

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  1. More fun than hanging out at the Donut shop... by sisukapalli1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine having to sift through tonnes of porn material, and getting paid for it. The job itself isn't really important because most of the search warrants would be over bullshit matters anyway.

    S

  2. Yahoo is down... by aero6dof · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please be patient, yahoo is down for search warrant maintenance. The system will be restored, minus any confiscated data, in a few hours...

  3. Re:Precautions by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 3, Funny

    On a slip of paper in a book at the library referencing another book at another library. The reference number is the ISBN multiplied by the reverse of the year on the Jewish calender I was born in. That book has a number in the front cover. That number of pages from the last full page of text towards the front of the book is a page with X paragraphs and Y words in the first paragraph. X chapters and Y pages into the Cryptonomicon is an underlined passage.

    ROT-13 that to get my key.

    --
    I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.