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Posts by Stefan Savage

I just wondered if anyone had tried to push this in practice because a) some of the agencies who have opposed such changes are those who only have subpoena power and b) if ever there was a time for crazy admin subpoenas now would be that time.

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Dear god yes. Norms, expectations and policies have all been thoroughly devalued as impediments to adventurism.

4 weeks ago 0 0 1 0

Ooops... I meant Warshak (but roughly the same time frame)

1 month ago 0 0 1 0

The 180day thing always seemed nuts. However, I’m curious if you’re aware of agencies actually availing themselves of this power post-Theofel. My sense is that the big providers won’t honor it, and DoJ hasn’t tried, but I’d love to know if that’s wrong (esp agencies that only have subpoena power)

1 month ago 0 1 2 0

Perhaps another is a conspiracy charge no? As I recall you get to date the clock on conspiracy from the last overt act and I don’t think a warrant for evidence of an overt act needs to include the conspiracy charge.

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

FWIW, the docket remains sealed in PACER -- and hence the application and its affidavit. I assume the copy of the warrant out there is via service.

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Note that in general, gand runs criminal process as mc case types (i.e., not as mj) and they generally stay sealed unless they are explicitly unsealed via litigation.

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1-28-26 Fulton Warrant

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2 months ago 0 0 1 0

I'd also note that, on the off chance it were true, it would create problems for Meta beyond this particular tort claim... as Meta has represented to the US that it is not able to provide such information under court order (presumably pursuant to the explicit exception in CALEA around encryption).

2 months ago 3 0 0 0

So for me the interesting bit is the lawyers. Keller Postman is a std plaintiffs firm. Barrett is an individual practice guy from Oklahoma. and QE is lead counsel... an interesting mix.

2 months ago 2 0 0 0
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Actually, this doesn't look that weird to me for an initial complaint (its not uncommon in such cases for the complaint to be amended). They allege that there are specific whistleblowers who claim that "WhatsApp
and Meta store and have unlimited access to WhatsApp encrypted communications..."

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

The pardon text is for those “convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021;”. The bomb was planted on Jan 5. I foresee some litigating on “related to”

4 months ago 0 0 0 0

Correct. But once you insert a policy like this for one set of topics it’s not clear why you can’t extend it to other domains in the future…

4 months ago 1 0 1 0

Google scholar is an illusion, kinda like magenta. It only exists in your mind.

5 months ago 1 0 0 0

I think the other difference is the tremendous amount of manual work to figure out what the traffic was, who it belonged to and who to disclose to... which has been non-stop detective work for them over the last year.

6 months ago 0 0 0 0

The difference is one of scale (a dozen transponders vs > 400, decoding a a single standard protocol vs building a system to decode an array of proprietary protocols)

6 months ago 2 0 1 1
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

Amazing story about the work of my amazing colleagues:
www.wired.com/story/satell...

6 months ago 5 1 0 0

An interesting question is what the other warrants were for... In my experience, attachment A and B generally only get numbered when they're part of a larger group.

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Next time “the Meg”

6 months ago 1 0 0 0

Yeah, no idea on that one. After all YOU did not register the copyright.

7 months ago 1 0 1 0

The open questions seem to be about a) whether "book" is limiting and b) if there is some kind of pro-rata thing for what fraction of a work was pirated.

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I will point out that ACM Proceedings do have ISBN numbers and apparently ACM registered the copyrights. They look like class members to me... ditto IEEE.

7 months ago 0 0 2 0

I also wonder if the term book is not salient. It has to have an Asin/isbn number. So perhaps a whole proceedings might be much a thing?

7 months ago 0 0 1 0

In this respect I’m skeptical about the “it’s just a tool” analogy. That’s great when it’s interchangeable (ie purely labor saving). The advent of calculators made our arithmetic muscles atrophy, but so what? Generative AI text threatens to make our thinking muscles atrophy — different I think.

7 months ago 1 0 0 0

I think, from a student standpoint, writing is the most problematic case. Writing is the mechanism we have for thinking through problems, making them crisp and concrete. When we allow AI to do drafts of writing we are outsourcing our thinking and we don’t develop our own abilities.

7 months ago 1 0 1 0
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At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.

On the one-year anniversary of CrowdStrike's disastrous crashes that took down millions of computers worldwide, a new study finds 750-plus hospital networks in the US were disrupted, and 200-plus appear to have had outages of patient medical services. www.wired.com/story/at-lea...

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Don’t you think Google’s change in how location history is stored is going to make this practically (albeit not legally) moot? Did anyone else offer geofence? Tower dumps maybe will be the next front here.

10 months ago 0 0 1 0

Tracy was also the founding drummer in UWs legendary “Anna’s All Girl Band” — an interdisciplinary systems/theory musical experience. Clearly he had it in his blood.

10 months ago 1 0 0 0

The argument is that maybe a big part of the goal here is for students to learn at the beginning that they should be doing AEAD. We don’t teach miasma and leeches and then “work up” to medicine that works after all. I think bottom up leads people to believe they can be clever.

11 months ago 5 0 1 0

Every single one of your commenters seems to suggest bottom up. Arguing, rightly I suspect, that it’s pedagogically better to start with simpler things and compose them. I’ll play devils advocate and suggest the reverse.

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