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A federal judge has approved a warrant for web hosting company DreamHost's records for DisruptJ20.org, a site that was used to plan anti-Trump protests on Inauguration Day. However, the scope of the warrant has been significantly narrowed:
"[W]hile the government has the right to execute its Warrant," D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin wrote in his order, "it does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost's website and discover the identity of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity, particularly those persons who were engaging in protected First Amendment activities."
The government sought the warrant as it gathers evidence for its cases against nearly 200 people charged with rioting on Jan. 20.
The judge's new order instructs DreamHost to redact identifying information of "innocent persons" who visited the website before providing the records to the government. It also dictates a protocol for incorporating procedural safeguards to comply with "First Amendment and Fourth Amendment considerations." Among other stipulations, the government must submit to the court its plan for permanently deleting from its possession all information not within the scope of the warrant.
DreamHost considered the judge's ruling a significant victory. "The new order is a far cry from the original warrant we received in July," DreamHost General Counsel Christopher Ghazarian wrote in a statement to NPR. "Absent a finding by the Court that probable cause of criminal activity exists, the government will not be able to uncover the identities of these users. There are also quite a few modifications that further reduce the government's ability to review unrelated data. This is another huge win not just for DreamHost, but for internet users around the world."
Also at Reason, The Register, Engadget, and Infosecurity Magazine.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 17 2017, @05:32AM
Military expenditure != military aggression. For example, spending $400 billion to develop a so-so jet fighter (with another $70 billion on its primary competitor which was discontinued) will reduce the US's future capacity for military aggression and there's a lot of other big failures in military procurement that have similar effect. Similarly, there's a lot of waste (and worse IMHO) in day to day contracting. In an earlier story, there was an equating [soylentnews.org] of money with power. This shows how that goes wrong. There's enormous sums being spent for military activity and results that are embarrassingly paltry.
My take here is that all you have to do to beat the US militarily is get it into a continuing series of Iraq-like wars for the next two decades. The enormous expenditures are a weakness not a strength of US military capability.
And I note, aside from a vapid assertion of "Cold War bullshit", you completely ignore my primary complaint about North Korea. Why are you parroting Cold War bullshit and ignoring North Korea's brutality and totalitarian society? You won't find a society more opposed to your claimed ideals of Socialism anywhere in the world today.
Finally, it's just not that hard to end a war when both sides have stopped fighting. Most wars that the US is involved in have ended long ago. North Korea is the sole reason that the Korean War technically still goes on and people still occasionally die on the border between the two Koreas.