-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> wrote:
On 04/02/2011, at 2:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
An armed FBI special agent shows up at your facility and tells your ranking manager to "shut down the Internet".
Turn off the room lights, salute, and shout, "Mission Accomplished." The FBI dude with the gun won't know the difference.
No. The correct answer is that in the U.S., if the Agent in question has a valid subpoena or N.S.L., you must comply. If he doesn't, then you do not have to comply. I cannot answer for any other jurisdiction. Also, make sure you have staff attorneys well-versed in Internet law -- you'll need them either way. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFNS4sCq1pz9mNUZTMRAu1EAKCMTVfXnYlbzjpyrKNfiW1grhaUgwCfQTos KDDZdBA0Xd/2cy0Wx9qf3gc= =vNsc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/