Re: Search and Seizure of Email

[Justin Klein Keane <justin () madirish net>]

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I'll just leave this here:

http://www.cybercrime.gov/ssmanual/03ssma.html

Section D does list a search warrant, but also lists other mechanisms
by which the government can compel a provider to turn over e-mail.
The US government is restricted by the 4th amendment in this respect.

Justin Klein Keane
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On 10/12/2011 11:54 AM, Laurelai wrote:
> On 10/12/2011 10:33 AM, Christian Sciberras wrote:
> > Well said!
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Sichel 
> > <daniels () ponderosatel com <mailto:daniels () ponderosatel com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In fact, law enforcement officials don?t even need a search
> > warrant to
> > > access private emails.
> >
> > In point of fact, nobody does, although acquiring this access is 
> > clearly easier for law enforcement. One of the burdens that the
> > freedom the Internet brings, is the freedom. Your email is out
> > there, typically unencrypted, available to anyone who can snatch
> > the packets off the wire, Any ISP employee with appropriate read
> > rights on a mail server.
> >
> > Take responsibility for your own email. Encrypt it if you must, 
> > but for heaven sakes, own the fact that it is publicly visible.
> >
> > If we do not take responsibility for our own email and whine
> > about others reading it,  than there will HAVE to be regulations
> > by government to protect us. That's what government does.  That's
> > what it is SUPPOSED to do.  So before we invite Godzilla to
> > protect our email, how about we just man up and take
> > responsibility ourselves?
> >
> > But that's just the idea of a bunch of dead white guys like
> > Edmund Burke, John Adams and James Madison, and what do they
> > know?
> >
> >
> > Dan Sichel
> >
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> Well there is no push to make snail-mail encrypted and lets face it
> most peoples mailboxes don't have any sort of locking mechanisms
> and is available to anyone with two hands and the malicious intent
> to steal someones mail  however the US Gov needs a warrant to
> intercept your physical mail, why does it being online somehow make
> it different? Especially considering the US Postal service keeps
> threatening to shut down, and this is due to the increased
> popularity of *email*. Why this should be troubling is that they
> consider email somehow different than physical mail when it comes
> to privacy rights for no really good reason, and considering that
> one of the grievances we had with England in the time of the
> revolutionary war was the government intercepting mail for 
> arbitrary reasons. This should make every American citizen's hair
> stand on end.
>
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