On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:54:57PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:42:31 -0500, Chris Boyd said: > > > There's probably going to be some interesting legal fallout from that > > practice. As an ISP customer, I'd be furious to find out that my > > communications had been intercepted due to the bad behavior of another user. > > See the various lawsuits against the NSA - the vast majority have been > summarily > dismissed because the plaintiffs couldn't produce evidence their > communications > had in fact been intercepted, and thus they didn't have standing to sue.
And the rest have been thrown out because the plaintiffs couldn't produce evidence that they'd been specifically harmed by having their communications intercepted, probably because it hadn't been "collected" (under the NSA definition of same). - Matt -- A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.
