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Re:The ACLU wants to know why Facebook beat a 2018 wiretap case by gowld on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:54PM (#23013114)
Why would that be so?

Why wouldn't they just skip the annoying charade and the anti government precedent, and just give over the info secretly in the first place, least work for everyone?

And don't you think at some point one of the retired engineers or execs would leak the truth?

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Re:The ACLU wants to know why Facebook beat a 2018 wiretap case by cryptonector on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:55PM (#23014783)
"Hey Joe, look at the news! If we use Messenger, we can't get wiretapped!"

That's a limited ruse because at some point evidence has to be entered into the record at trial, and if the fact that the government could reach Messenger after all came out, this scheme wouldn't work again. Of course, often investigators can back-reconstruct evidence that they can present -- and if in some case they can't, well, maybe next time. Other times trial evidence might not even be a goal. So a limited ruse, but not that limited.

Is it plausible? I think so. Is it likely? No idea.

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