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Italian ISP Hides Data Acquisition by Police

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-this-couldn't-happen-in-the-states dept.

jaromil writes "It happened recently in Italy: the provider Aruba lied to a customer calling "power loss" a police action to acquire all data contained in the harddisks of the AUT/INV collective, keeping it secret for a whole year, while more than 30.000 people used its encrypted services for private comunications."

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  1. ISP's answer was absolutely true by kawika · · Score: 4, Funny

    If that isn't a "power loss" I don't know what is. This is an answer worthy of the Oracle at Delphi.

  2. Re:Summary is fine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It happened recently in Italy: the provider Aruba lied to a customer calling "power loss" a police action to acquire all data contained in the harddisks of the AUT/INV collective, keeping it secret for a whole year, while more than 30.000 people used its encrypted services for private comunications.

    It is not, in fact, a "perfectly well-formed, gramatically correct sentence." There subject/object confusion, a missing comma between "customer" and "calling," and several other miscellaneous mistakes. It could also have been written much more succinctly and less confusingly. Which is not to mention the fact that run-on sentences can have technically perfect grammar and syntax. The complaint "it is a run-on sentence" is not one about grammar, but about style.

    Maybe you belong to the aging nerd generation whose (not "where your") random bitterness at the valid complaints of those whom you assume to be younger than you stems from the fact that you, in your similar youth, were a hated, powerless outcast. It is a possibility.