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minimax on May 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch

The US government is a special case again. Since most of the companies mentioned here are headquartered in the US, the US government can resort to the no-tech solution of just asking for the data and presenting a subpoena (or so was my experience working for a large US telecom carrier).

tptacek on May 13, 2013 [–]

The difference is that a subpoena doesn't decrypt an EDH TLS session.

superuser2 on May 13, 2013 | [–]

But it does decrypt the data at rest.

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