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Move the apostrophe in the title one character to the left.

He would have cooperated (as he had in the past) with a lawful request to log a particular user's metadata in an auditable manner.

Which isn't itself good; a better system would be one that makes it impossible for the service provider to fulfill such requests.

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I see what you mean but he, Ladar Levison, did offer to write the software to do logging for all users when there is a warrant. The FBI wanted to use the ruling as a way to circumvent warrants and scoop everything. So although the title is technically correct it omits the "why" since it makes better link bait.

This is the title of the actual Guardian article, and the convention on HN is to use the linked article's title.

its not a fixed rule and clickbait should be reworded to something neutral in my opinion.

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