CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]

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  • Subpoenas, generally speaking, do not require a signature of a judge and aren’t subject to the same scrutiny as a warrant.

    Subpoenas are issued against third parties (in this case Google) to compel the release of information. Google can fight the subpoena in court, but they generally don’t.

    The enforceability only comes if Google decided not to comply, at which point they could offer to sell the information to the government or a judge ruled that Google must comply.

    Again, most companies comply because they often lack the incentive to not comply.







  • I went down this rabbit hole (PGP/PKI) a few months ago and more or less agree with the blogs that @naeap posted.

    BUT do not discount the importance that PKI has played to our overall security infrastructure. It’s just that PGP is an absolute shitshow when it comes to communication in today’s day and age.

    I’d love something that works like Signal (e.g. forward security, identifiable but also deniable) but also in email-like format. I feel like Matrix comes closest in that you can have multiple devices that belong to you that can decrypt full messages but it requires a central server, which isn’t ideal. E2EE leaves the possibility that you can lose your device (and thus your messages) but not having it leaves the possibility of eavesdropping.

    I don’t have a good email solution. So right now I’m just using Signal for most secure communications.