Bard spotting thread 03 July 2024

Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social):

I feel like a fool, a real rube, for having not previously predicted cops demanding free OnlyFans access

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Jonathan (@jginsburg.bsky.social):

Well, today I learned onlyfans isn't immediately giving into cop demands, kind of pleasant surprise

atreides nuts (@afivegantenna.bsky.social):

normal companies that arent amazon require a subpoena for customer data!!

Jonathan (@jginsburg.bsky.social):

Google and cell carriers will give it up without a proper warrant

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

At the turn of the millennium I worked for a telecomms equipment corp that found it easier to get their network intrusion incidents taken seriously by the FBI, if the FBI didn't always need warrants. There was an understanding.

Adrian Chadd (@erikarn.bsky.social):

Everyone else: "FBI needs warrants for carriers"

NSA: "All fibre interconnects via this room please tyvm"

FBI: "backdoor for taps are now in all cisco HW, you must deploy it, tyvm"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Back when the Snowden papers dropped, I remember someone posting a redacted parts manifest that showed that a major semiconductor manufacturer's SSL accelerator silicon had a hardcoded backdoor for US LEO intercept.

The content is undoubtedly in a Utah warehouse - they only want probable cause