Re: Pay to Crim
Committed fraud in the sense they were taking money for a service about which they had lied through their teeth about. But, that's what having a signed warranty allowing such activity is all about - rendering something that would ordinarily be illegal legal for a very specific and, in this case, large scale and overwhelmingly beneficial purpose. As was mentioned in the article, some of these warrants were about to expire, so they acted.
The difference between a well adjusted democracy and a totalitarian state like China or Russia is that in the democracy a warrant is required, whereas in the totalitarian state it's taken as a given that the state can and will do this kind of thing with every comms platform all the time anyway. It's not just walls that have ears.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
