ramdac

this seems to be the most logical course of action taken.

people are capitalizing on the fact that google ranks reddit so highly, but are also bringing the quality down as a result.

it has a stopwatch. It's that simple.

how do you pronounce it? kuberthreeties?

What happens when the roundtrip time isn't consistent?

Tl;dr? = there's no breakthrough.

what strikes me is how differently 'hacking' is viewed today in the mainstream. Try any of that at a company as big as IBM, and you'll likely be rotting in a cell as a suspected cyber terrorist.

ok maybe I exaggerate, but I can't help but think how innocent those times sound in this story.

This is how cliff's notes should work.

Are you asking because you are looking for answers? Either way, yes.

or thought he could. Isn't that what ultimately took him down?

I can attest to this. I've seen these orders.

I actually like this idea. Where does facebook sit in that scale? I imagine pretty close to telco.

I couldn't have said it better myself. What I've witnessed is that companies are apt to lie down in favor of the FBI because building up a rapport with the FBI can be a good thing in certain business models. (don't ask).

The DoJ is well-aware of this, I'm sure, and is only too happy to throw its full weight around.

To me, this suggests that corporations have too much power in this country. This explains why the FBI is heavy-handed with their "do not disclose" style issuances to corporations. It isn't so much that the FBI is scared the company will tip someone off, but that people in general will become more knowledgeable about these activities. This poses a risk for companies as proponents of privacy will be very outspoken.

If anything, this is a great argument for why these things SHOULD be public knowledge.

is an US-based proxy server an option?

edit: I see that option has been discussed elsewhere in this thread. Sorry for the repeat.

It's also interesting that this utterance by Sony has shifted the whole discussion away from their own security failures.

Sony, in blaming Anonymous, has asked theem to prove a negative -- that they did NOT hack PSN. The onus isn't on anonymous to prove a negative. Sony knows they can't. It's just an effective way to shift focus on this issue away from their failure to protect customer data.