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AnimalMuppet
on Feb 29, 2016
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Brooklyn Judge: Feds Can't Use All Writs Act to Fo...
If UnluckySmallCo. had created a phone that was used by defendants in nine separate cases, they probably would be big enough to handle it.
CiPHPerCoder
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Let's look at it from a different angle: What if you were a GNU/Linux distro maintainer and nine defendants had used your OS instead of Windows? Could you be forced to help the FBI?
AnimalMuppet
on March 1, 2016
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Or you maintained an open source crypto library? Yeah, that might be tougher.
But if it was an open source crypto library, the feds could just fork it and leave you alone...
wooter
on Feb 29, 2016
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the fact that the government is creating so many cases, hoping one sticks, isn't a good sign to me. lavabit didn't fare so well.
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