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$someSmallTown might not even have a police department, how are you supposed to find out if the only one that comes up on the internet is fake?

Try refusing to comply with a real warrant because you aren’t convinced that it’s real. You will go to jail.

Turns out the government actually has no duty to convince you, locking you up tends to be convincing enough.

That’s my point. The OP “riskable” claimed the opposite though.

> So while someone on my team is gathering the requested data, someone else is doing the verification

The whole point is that verification will take much longer than hours.

> Sounds like you're saying the problem is that the government is mandating things and providing no rules about how it should work. That seems like such an un-government-like thing to do, they usually get weirdly specific.

The government is very specific when it comes to what is required of you. The government is not very specific when it comes to what is required of the government.

Until you get in trouble for not complying with a real one.

Worst case scenario is probably a horrible PR disaster after a child dies because you couldn’t process a real request fast enough.

And we’re not talking about seconds, but easily days or weeks.

If you give them days, weeks or perhaps months to come up with a response. Sure.

Not going to work internationally anyway.

That’s the implication. A lengthy verification process makes speedy processing of requests impossible.

Yeah, of course the federal government could legislate this problem away. Not gonna happen though.

It is literally impossible for request recipients to solve this problem.

The people discussed in this article are absolutely capable and willing to pick up phone calls.

> Somehow there were ways to get this done before websites existed

Ah yeah, because fake subpoenas didn’t work before the internet existed?

> I do not believe that those channels for government no longer exist. If they choose to make themselves impossible to locate offline, this is on them.

Who says they ever existed? Back in the pre-internet days the situation was just worse.

Even the federal government can’t manage this, just look at misissuances of .gov domain names.

We are talking about fake law enforcement requests sent to big internet companies. Do you think these bigcos have presence in McMullen, AL?