[136690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Feb 4 00:14:34 2011
In-Reply-To: <96503CEA-C922-47A6-9691-FCF157DF15D5@internode.com.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 21:13:46 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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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
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