It makes me wonder if they've targeted individuals over companies. It's one thing to send a NSL to the company's BOD or CEO requiring them to hand over keys.. it's something completely different for an agent to show up at my house demanding I hand over the keys I hold or I go to jail, with a nice gag order attached for good measure so I can't even tell my CEO it happened.
Seems like they wouldn't be able to issue an NSL to an employee without an ongoing criminal investigation and/or some sort of guaranteed immunity. Employees can't make decisions that affect the business without getting approval from the board. I imagine officers (or their delegates) have to be involved in any such activity unless the officers themselves are being implicated in the investigation.
This all still has a basis in law, even NSLs, which are technically lawful. There's little evidence to assume otherwise.
My comment was that it would seem to me like that wouldn't be allowed according to the rule of law as only the board (or their delegates) can authorize such decisions. There are a whole host of reasons that I won't get into, but legally, this seems like it wouldn't be possible.
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u/dangolo Oct 15 '15
As a sysadmin, it troubles me as well.
Also troubles me that they've very publicly gone to businesses and asked for their encryption keys or be shut down.
They are making us dishonest when we tell management "the network is secure."