[148653] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Jan 19 22:49:14 2012
In-Reply-To: <72B69C18-552A-4E5A-8CE7-3EB3548012D3@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:18:26 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Er I'm sorry but do you mean joeschmoe@corp.megaupload.com type
emails, or joeschmoe@hotmail.com type emails?
If megaupload's corporate email was siezed to provide due diligence in
such a prosecution - it would quite probably not constitute private
mail
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrot=
e:
>
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0The Megaupload case is unusual, said Orin S. K=
err, a law professor
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0at George Washington University, in that feder=
al prosecutors obtained
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0the private e-mails of Megaupload=E2=80=99s op=
erators in an effort to show they
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0were operating in bad faith.
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0"The government hopes to use their private wor=
ds against them," Mr. Kerr
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0said. "This should scare the owners and operat=
ors of similar sites."
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
