[81200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Administration Asks Appeals Court To Compel ISP Searches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Frisvold)
Tue May 31 16:05:10 2005
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:01:50 -0400
From: Jason Frisvold <xenophage0@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Jason Frisvold <xenophage0@gmail.com>
To: Chris Ranch <CRanch@affinity.com>
Cc: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D8859A7C62ABF145B91C38F31502284C01DA8E78@exchange-ftl.affinityhq.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 5/31/05, Chris Ranch <CRanch@affinity.com> wrote:
> I just reread the article, and realized I got it wrong. There is some
> paperwork: "The ruling came in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties
> Union and an Internet access firm that received a national security
> letter (NSL) from the FBI demanding records."
>=20
> So, the NSL isn't judge or grand jury authorized, just the FBI
> investigator.
Yeah, I guess I missed that too.. I wonder what an NSL looks like...=20
Here's some info on them tho :
http://www.selfstorage.org/pdf/WhatisNationalSecurityLetter.pdf
=20
> Do you double-check sups back to the signing judge? Does anyone?
We generally call to verify the authenticity... And we ususally wind
up calling to inform them that they've given insufficient information,
or asked for something we can't provide... It's fun when you get one
that requests the IP address of the user and all they give you is a
screen name. *sigh*
> Chris
> Affinity Internet, Inc.
--=20
Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
XenoPhage0@gmail.com
