Re: VPN providers and any providers in general...

[Laurelai <laurelai () oneechan org>]

On 10/4/2011 7:52 PM, adam wrote:
> >>Its frightening how much power judges have, and how poorly they 
> are overseen.
>
> Definitely agree there. Some of the civil cases are disgustingly bad, 
> due to there being no media attention and no real oversight. The civil 
> case mentioned above is a good example, and all of the excessive child 
> support orders even further that.
>
> On topic: I haven't read every single reply here, but from what I've 
> seen: no one has mentioned the VPN provider being held personally 
> responsible. Being that the attacks originated from machines they own, 
> if they failed to turn over user information, could it really be that 
> difficult to pin the attacks on them and convince a judge that they 
> were responsible?
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com 
> <mailto:noloader () gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:32 PM, adam <adam () papsy net
>     <mailto:adam () papsy net>> wrote:
>     >>>http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm00754.htm
>     > Did you actually read the link you pasted?
>     > [...] and "criminal penalties may not be imposed on someone who
>     has not been
>     > afforded the protections that the Constitution requires of such
>     criminal
>     > proceedings [...] protections include the right [..]
>     > Then take a look at the actual rights being referenced. Most of
>     which would
>     > be violated as a result.
>     > In response to 0x41 "This is ONCE you are actually in front, of the
>     > judge...remember, it may take some breaking of civil liberty,
>     for this to
>     > happen... "
>     > No, you're absolutely right. That's the point here. Contempt is
>     attached to
>     > the previous court order, there wouldn't be a new judge/new case
>     for the
>     > contempt charge alone. All of it is circumstantial anyway,
>     especially due to
>     > how much power judges actually have (in both criminal AND civil
>     > proceedings).
>     Its frightening how much power judges have, and how poorly they are
>     overseen. Confer: Judge James Ware, US 9th Circuit Court (this is not
>     a local judge in a hillbilly town).
>
>     Jeff
Also a good point.

On the flip side would it be that hard for a malicious person who works 
at a VPN provider to blame it on a customer? I don't think that's what 
has happened in this case, but hypothetically what is to stop a rouge 
employee from abusing the trust that a LE official might have and 
doctoring logs sent to them?
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