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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by wongarsu on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @03:07PM (#36062654)
I'm not sure I'd call three subpoenas "a string of subpoenas" even if it's technically correct. But I'm more talking about specifically mentioning that the subpoenas from March and April 2023 don't have a gag order. Why mention those months specifically if in the other months they didn't receive any? The natural thing would have been to end the sentence six words earlier.
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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by florbo on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @03:16PM (#36062734)
It sounds more like they're addressing the inevitable "why didn't you post as soon as it happened" party.
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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by Eisenstein on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @03:20PM (#36062768)
It is perfectly clear that you are correct because trying to tell anyone about confidential subpoenas could be illegal.
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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by hunter2_ on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @03:34PM (#36062936)
When it requires so much "reading between the lines" that even this community doesn't have a strong consensus on whether this is being (illegally) communicated or not, I think it's plausibly deniable, but IANAL. Contrast with well-known canaries.
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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by kelipso on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:37PM (#36065816)
Canaries that are well known would just become normal communication and thus illegal under a non-disclosure. It's just going to get worse lol.
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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:56PM (#36063751)
> I'm not sure I'd call three subpoenas "a string of subpoenas" even if it's technically correct

I would if the sequence was such that the receipt of eachbof thr subsequebt ones delayed writeup of the overall incident in the interest of completeness or because there was some relationship between them

> the subpoenas from March and April 2023 don't have a gag order. Why mention those months specifically if in the other months they didn't receive any?

Because you are doing an aggregate writeup of a series of events and you want to convey when they occurred and why you are able to do a detailed writeup.

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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by xg15 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:24AM (#36069869)
Even moreso, this bit:

> We have waited for the string of subpoenas to subside

If the "string of subpoenas" were really only the three, then it "subsided" in april - so you'd expect the announcement to have been made in late april or early may. However, now we already have the end of may.

So either they are extremely disorganised and needed a month to rediscover the SQL queries they had just used before - or the "string of subpoenas" in fact "subsided" only very recently and not in april.

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