coospep

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by coospep 4y ago
$someSmallTown might not even have a police department, how are you supposed to find out if the only one that comes up on the internet is fake?
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by coospep 4y ago
Try refusing to comply with a real warrant because you aren’t convinced that it’s real. You will go to jail. Turns out the government actually has no duty to convince you, locking you up tends to be convincing enough.
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by coospep 4y ago
That’s my point. The OP “riskable” claimed the opposite though.
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by coospep 4y ago
> So while someone on my team is gathering the requested data, someone else is doing the verification The whole point is that verification will take much longer than hours. > Sounds like you're saying the problem is that the gove
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by coospep 4y ago
Until you get in trouble for not complying with a real one. Worst case scenario is probably a horrible PR disaster after a child dies because you couldn’t process a real request fast enough. And we’re not talking about seconds, but easily d
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by coospep 4y ago
If you give them days, weeks or perhaps months to come up with a response. Sure. Not going to work internationally anyway.
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by coospep 4y ago
That’s the implication. A lengthy verification process makes speedy processing of requests impossible.
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by coospep 4y ago
Yeah, of course the federal government could legislate this problem away. Not gonna happen though. It is literally impossible for request recipients to solve this problem.
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by coospep 4y ago
The people discussed in this article are absolutely capable and willing to pick up phone calls.
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by coospep 4y ago
> Somehow there were ways to get this done before websites existed Ah yeah, because fake subpoenas didn’t work before the internet existed? > I do not believe that those channels for government no longer exist. If they choose to make
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by coospep 4y ago
We are talking about fake law enforcement requests sent to big internet companies. Do you think these bigcos have presence in McMullen, AL?