On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 05:20 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > I imagine EFF, Harvard Law's Berkman Center, and NYU Law had some really > good > lawyers look at this before they endorsed it ;-) It is uncharted > territory to > some degree, in terms of courts. But it sounds like those lawyers > forming a > posse in case this does go to court. > > Also, for those who don't know, Nick Merrill, the man behind Calyx, was > the > plaintiff in Doe v. Ashcroft, which challenged the legality of aspects of > National Security Letters (NSLs): > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Merrill > > I can't really imagine a better legal team behind this effort. I suppose > they > are missing an ACLU endorsement...
BTW, I asked some EFF and Berkman folks, and people thought that software devs like us should be included, wrt to backdoors in our software, being forced to sign a binary with added "stuff" in it, etc. We should make sure we have a coordinated process between all of us with keys, and then go from there. +n _______________________________________________ Guardian-dev mailing list Post: [email protected] List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To Unsubscribe Send email to: [email protected] Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com You are subscribed as: [email protected]
