[erhardm]

To be clear, NSL are anti-democratic and wrong.

But it looks like they put themselves in that position. Either by voluntary working with the FBI and allegedly taking a $1M grant, and/or doing unethical research by doing it on the live network.

[geofft]

Is it possible for an NSL to order you to conduct your research on the live network?

(I mean, I guess it's possible for an NSL to order you to do anything, because America.)

[sarciszewski]

All an NSL can do is request subscriber information and simultaneously gag you from telling them that the request occurred.

[criddell]

So then it must be the $1,000,000 that made CMU adjust their ethical standards.

What's worse - that CMU did this in the first place or that they did it so cheaply?

[doktrin]

SEI/CERT is for all intents and purposes completely independent of CMU

[mikecb]

No, it's a (formally, administrative subpoena) request for transactional records related to a national security investigation.

[fweespeech]

No, it can't ask you to change behavior.

It can only require you to turn over existing records/information.