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The President is sworn to uphold and protect the Constitution (by law, and upon accepting office). He can do this through whatever means are available to him, including executive orders, and rallying public support for legislation.

BTW, the title is "inflammatory" because the situation justifies it. It's an inflammatory situation, as it should be!

Find whatever excuse you want though for not approving this. Whatever helps you sleep.

BTW, HN has already turned into reddit, and the fact that this didn't make it to the front page is further evidence of that.

Your decision to turn a willful blind eye to this is part of the problem. If you know nothing about how the government works, perhaps you should listen to the law professors linked above.

In an indirect way, you are also helping contribute to Manning's continuing detainment and torture. Sleep with that.

That this story is being silenced out in so many places... blows my mind. HN should be ashamed to participate in the censorship.

The President of the United States is blatantly violating the Constitution (in one of the worst ways), and nobody cares.

Why isn't this on the front page given the number of upvotes it's gotten (12 in 32 minutes?).

Yet this is?

  Show HN: New Fwix Local API (from the team at Fwix)
  4 points by goo 56 minutes ago | flag | 1 comment

Everything on your website that in any way addresses "Dropbox's security" should make absolutely clear the extent to which users can expect their data to be "secure".

In Dropbox's case, users can expect the following:

  - Data is probably secure from sniffers

That's it.

It matters little whether "Drew has physical access to our storage servers anymore". Your code obviously has easy access to the keys used to encrypt and decrypt the data. This means all of the following scenarios are possible:

  - User's data is obtained via the government (users 
    aren't necessarily even informed about this)
  - User's data is obtained by rouge employee (potentially
    leaking to _anyone_ or _anything_)
  - User's data is obtained by hacker (again, implies ZERO 
    assurance of data security).

So don't flash around "AES this or that" without making it absolutely clear to the average user that what you are doing is the equivalent of storing their data in a shed guarded by a lock that can be accessed by anyone who can find (or demand) the key that you've hidden under a rock somewhere.

Add Dreamhost to this list.

OK, but the link seemed to have a happy ending, so I'm not sure if what you're saying is still true:

As a result of a settlement in the case, the FBI lifts the gag on Nick Merrill, the ACLU's client and the first NSL recipient to challenge the records demand.