throwit1979

On the topic of anecdotal RSI cures, I was symptom-free after starting a strength training program focusing on heavy compound lifts and olympic lifts. No rest periods or ergonomic quackery required.

Well, it's certainly possible, but I'd like to point out one thing. IANAL, but I've been through enough to know that courts will often/always consider the aspect of compliance known as "good faith". It's almost certain that handing over the key and them immediately changing it would be seen by the presiding judge as compliance in bad faith, and would put him in a substantially worse position with regard to possible contempt. Given this, unless Levison is legally suicidal, I think it's a fair bet that any relaunch using a new key pair was done, at the very least, with the blessing of the feds and/or the judge. And I can only think of one reason the feds would give such a blessing.

So then he suddenly, after all this time, woke up and decided, "hey, you know all those hosts I shut down and mothballed? I'm going to fire them up NOW, spend some time restoring backups, reconfiguring things where necessary, while facing possible contempt charges, for an arbitrary number of hours, with a new keypair, signed by a US certification authority, without ephemeral keys, and invite everyone who has been avoiding snooping by state entities to log in with their private credentials!" ?

He could have done this a while ago, but he didn't.

He could have relaunched fully, under a new entity, but he didn't.

He chose NOW, to relaunch for only 72 hours. Why?

Occam's razor, for once, actually supports the conspiracy theory.

It's far more likely that Levison has been bullied into 72 hours of snooping to avoid contempt than that he's suddenly decided, months after shutting down, for no reason at all, to open up a window for users to grab their emails.

Um. What possible jurisdiction can New York State have over a California company with no offices in New York?

Probably best to tell this AG to go piss up a rope privately and dispense with useless press releases like this.

Wild guess: google routes non-latency-critical US traffic like SMTP outside the US so the NSA's beam splitters can more easily claim intercepted domestic data as "international".

Kaiser charges a $100 copay for ER visits. $50 does not sound too outlandish.

The bigger question is why GenY thinks a simple fever is cause for helping to overcrowd our emergency rooms even further. A thermometer costs $20 and will help determine if the fever is severe enough to require medical intervention.