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Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by snowwrestler on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:58PM (#12639876)
> A gag order couldn't possibly compel someone who made the discovery on their own (for the simple reason that they wouldn't know about it to be compelled).

If the company was gagged, I don't see how it would matter whether company employees knew about it in advance or found it by accident. Either way, the company is still gagged.

Also, while your comment makes common sense, national security restrictions don't have to make sense to be legal. For example there is information that is "born classified," meaning that even if it is independently developed, totally separate from the defense apparatus, it's still considered classified!

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Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by ryanlol on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:30PM (#12640126)
That particular employee may not be. Obvious solution is to have a page ran by some reasonably trustworthy organisation where people can report these breaches before passing them on to their superiors.
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