On Tuesday, May 1, 2001, at 03:51 PM, David Honig wrote: > At 09:17 AM 4/30/01 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote: >> I remember having lunch a while back with Loki and the topic of logs >> come up- He mentioned that his company fully and completely complies >> with warrants for all logs, especially easy to comply with since his >> company doesn't keep logs. > > Imagine a world where margins are so small that disk and tape space > matters. > Or operator-attention costs a lot. Keeping logs could trash a business. > Is congress going to fund this? [Hint: they have to if they require it] > The "argument from practicality," especially when some issue of "Congress funding this," is an extremely weak argument. The real argument is that commanding a person to keep records of whom he communicates with (which is what a log of messages is all about) is a slam dunk violation of the First Amendment. It is no more acceptable than an order commanding Alice to record in a log the names of all those persons she speaks with. --Tim May
