alfiejohn_

> Parallel construction does NOT allow law enforcement to

I think we're beyond this point now. There is no "what we are allowed to do" vs "what we are not allowed to do". From what we have seen in the past few months, it's now a matter of "do what we want to do" and if we can't do it then we'll interpret the law.

> (a) Introduce evidence that is the product of NSA surveillance

> (b) Literally manufacture probable cause to effect a search to generate introducible evidence

There is probably even a team at the NSA whose sole purpose is parallel construction!

See the comments above about mobile networks and persistent sockets.

Because AFAIR, you need to point to two working implementations of a spec before turning it into an RFC.

No Google-snooping, and there never will be.

Wow, great comment. That's the first time I've wanted to buy someone Reddit Gold on Hacker News!

I've read a few and they have been really good reads. If there were more swear words, I would have said that Zed Shaw was his ghost writer.

I just have to say that you're one of my favorite bloggers.

Thanks for all your posts.

Thanks cypherpunks01.

I flagged it for my to-read list for after work. I'm an idiot and didn't RTFA.

Did your post have to go through some sort of internal review before you were allowed to publish it? I find it weird that you're allowed to blog, let alone blog about the NSA.

This reminds me of:

  http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

"You mean everybody had to sit down and watch the same thing at the same time?" -- kids of the tomorrow

This isn't where the line was crossed. Far from it. Even though eavesdropping on the everyday citizen is a pretty damning thing to do, in their eyes it isn't illegal so they can't understand why everyone is complaining.

The line was crossed a long time ago when the Law was treated as an opinion. This cultivated a "let's see what we can get away with" attitude which is now starting to unfold before the world stage.

For more info, see:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo