On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Aaron McCaleb wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:56, Cat Okita <[email protected]> wrote: >> [0] It may be that you're thinking of situations where the standard response >> is "Do you have a search warrant"... but again, there are >> standard reasonable responses to such things... > > Yes. Case "[0]" is what I was thinking of. I realize there are > reasonable responses to such things in the US and should be reasonable > responses to such in most other countries, if a search warrant is > issued before search and/or seizure. But I have precisely NO > experience with being served with a search warrant, in the US or > anywhere else. So I don't know if a notice that "Dear $userbase, > Please be advised that our mail/database/vhost data stores have been > seized pursuant to a search warrant" is normally permitted, or if the > details of the search warrant are permitted to be disclosed, etc. So > to my mind, there could be an ethical obligation to disclose the > warrant, with a legal obligation not to disclose...
Ah. Generally a search warrant needs to be specific when you're talking about getting information out of something like a telco/large enterprise. It'll need to specify which pieces of information they're wanting (eg: John Doe of 123 Main St, Sunnydale's connectivity records from Dec 25, 2010 - Jan 01, 2011), rather than "all your dataz are belongs to us". cheers! ========================================================================== "A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now." _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
