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I have more or less a reaction like this.

I think the best approach to a FISA order is to say "sure, no problem. We will have this all printed, bound, and shipped to you surface mail within 24 hour, preferably from our outsourced printing office in the Yucatan (it's a lot of pages and we don't have the equipment in house to do that). And on the off chance you want it to be electronically readable, we will print it out in OCR-A fonts. Great doing business with you. Have a nice day."




...if you want to middle-finger the US government. But why would Google, Facebook, et al want to middle-finger the government - a government that could massively help or hinder their ability to conduct business, etc?


So you want to transmit potentially sensitive information through the post in plaintext? Just to give the middle finger to the NSA?


"Oh, fret not. It's a double encryption. See, if the first letter is a consonant, then what follows is the mirrored truth."




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