The courts can be very effective at checking abuses of power.
For instance the court can ORDER that the warrant be narrowed to be strictly limited to searching only emails in existence and excluding any non existing emails.
"Charter Confusications wants true competition", said Sally Doublespeak, public spokesdroid. "All we want is for Google to be required to match the kind of bandwidth, throttling, data caps, pricing and customer service that customers have come to depend on from Charter Confusications."
Don't use the word Vague to describe new laws. Right thinking people would use the word Flexible.
Flexible new laws.
Laws regarding "offensive" things can be flexible because every citizen agrees on exactly what is offensive, otherwise they might be guilty of breaking that very law.
Humor should be no defense against an offensive meme law. Nobody needs humor. It just drags down productivity.
The digital storage era has caused a need for courts to reevaluate well-established Fourth Amendment standards.
You can re-evaluate standards, but you can't re-evaluate the meaning.
The meaning is that government is supposed to be searching for a specific thing named in the warrant.
The problem in practice is that they can keep the trove of data, and then search and re-search it again for different search items NOT named in the original warrant. When they search your home, they may be able to search everything, every room, every drawer, etc -- just as being to search EVERY email in the account. But they can't take your home with them to search later.
Maybe they should be able to grab everything. But if so, then they definitely should NOT be allowed to search later. It's search NOW, for the specified items, then destroy the data.
But it won't happen. Hanging on to that data is just too tempting. Even if they were required to delete it, they won't. It's like a drug.
But it's for public safety. If there was a minor defect on the car exterior, there may be other defects on the interior, such as a missing gear shift knob or something.
Yahoo narrowly interpreted the request to mean only users who use email on Yahoo's systems, and not on any of its competitors' systems.
Further, the request was narrowed to only search emails from the present to the past, and excluding all future emails to be sent once the ongoing search operations cease.
This vector for a security problem would only be because you are putting any kind of chip at all in the ink cartridge that does something non trivial.
If you must have a chip in the cartridge, and communicate with it, the communication should be totally trivial. Ink level. Temperature. Other telemetry. Nothing more. Poke the cartridge, it produces a string or binary result that is easily parsed by the printer's firmware.
When you "follow" ISIS on FaceTwit, you should probably not use a FaceTwit account that says something like "FBI", "CIA", etc. And be aware that this increases the count of followers.
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And Secret Interpretations of Laws!
If we allowed police to know these, then we would all be unsafe! It would be a global catastrophe!
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There's a reason these were censored
. . . then they might stop shopping!
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Re: Re: Charter wants true competition
* an extra $9.95 item on your Charter bill
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Re: Re: I was with them until the search.
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Re: Aiding and Abetting
For instance the court can ORDER that the warrant be narrowed to be strictly limited to searching only emails in existence and excluding any non existing emails.
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Charter wants true competition
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Re: Re: Telling complaints
Don't you think it is difficult enough to keep track of the combinations of donut types, fillings and toppings?
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Conviction Requirement is a huge step forward
Now the assets must be convicted to remain seized. The assets do not need to assist in their own defense.
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Vague new laws
Flexible new laws.
Laws regarding "offensive" things can be flexible because every citizen agrees on exactly what is offensive, otherwise they might be guilty of breaking that very law.
Humor should be no defense against an offensive meme law. Nobody needs humor. It just drags down productivity.
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Re-evaluate?
The meaning is that government is supposed to be searching for a specific thing named in the warrant.
The problem in practice is that they can keep the trove of data, and then search and re-search it again for different search items NOT named in the original warrant. When they search your home, they may be able to search everything, every room, every drawer, etc -- just as being to search EVERY email in the account. But they can't take your home with them to search later.
Maybe they should be able to grab everything. But if so, then they definitely should NOT be allowed to search later. It's search NOW, for the specified items, then destroy the data.
But it won't happen. Hanging on to that data is just too tempting. Even if they were required to delete it, they won't. It's like a drug.
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Re: I was with them until the search.
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Narrow Interpretation
Further, the request was narrowed to only search emails from the present to the past, and excluding all future emails to be sent once the ongoing search operations cease.
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Re: Re: Why should police have to know the laws?
So why should police know any of the laws they are enforcing?
It's difficult enough to keep track of the various combinations of donut types, fillings and toppings.
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Why should police have to know the laws?
You wouldn't expect your lawyer to know laws, court rules, procedures, and precedents.
You wouldn't expect a building engineer to know about stress, loads, or basic physics.
You wouldn't expect Hollywood to know about the constitutional purpose of copyright.
You wouldn't expect a licensed driver to know the traffic rules and traffic signs.
So why should police need to know the laws?
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Not buying a refill cartridge from us is robbery! (sick)
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This vector for a security problem would only be because you are putting any kind of chip at all in the ink cartridge that does something non trivial.
If you must have a chip in the cartridge, and communicate with it, the communication should be totally trivial. Ink level. Temperature. Other telemetry. Nothing more. Poke the cartridge, it produces a string or binary result that is easily parsed by the printer's firmware.
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Re: Really?
When you "follow" ISIS on FaceTwit, you should probably not use a FaceTwit account that says something like "FBI", "CIA", etc. And be aware that this increases the count of followers.
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