Twitter Ordered To Hand Over WikiLeaks Supporters’ Account Information
mashable.com
mashable.com
It's one thing for Twitter to promise not to give your information to government entities until asked, but it's a whole other thing to engineer their application so it's impossible to comply with such a request.
[1] http://docs.services.mozilla.com/sync/overview.html#cryptogr...
In the meatspace, if a suspected or known criminal was always hanging out in a certain small corporate office with only a few people then they might wiretap the whole building, even though the other workers are not necessarily involved.
From there they might be able to subpeona the personnel records for that small group of employees even though neither the corporation nor the "extracurricular" group those workers are involved with are even charged with any wrongdoing, based just on the personal wrongdoing of one of those workers and that one's association with the others in his building.
That doesn't mean there's no shenanigans going on here (I haven't looked at the article yet) but Wikileaks being formally accused of a crime is not compulsory to getting individual subpeonas in general.
Good luck with that. The government would simply argue that Twitter could easily have avoided the damages by cooperating ("you brought this on yourself").
This will only promote anti-Americanism, as people will try to stay away from American services. Who knows how far they will they take this. If I "support" #OccupyWallStreet on Twitter, does that mean that one day they might come after me, too? I really can't be sure either way these days, which means I can't treat things like these too lightly.
if they are able to see get his bank account or CC info, and then subpoena further records from his banks (which would be very f'd up indeed), then they may get something more. but that may be a steep mountain to climb under no hard evidence present.
Oh wait. The only thing in onionspace right now are child porn sites and drug dealers. Nevermind.
But the "four horsemen of infocalypse" are all there, ridiculously easy to find, but at the same time impossible to trace, and form a biggest part of onionspace.
It can be also taken as a proof of true Tor anonymity, though; the sites are all there, and the only thing law enforcement can do is to try to break the security of the sites and sneak for some info THERE.