[rockskon]

For what it's worth, the average tech-smarts in the legal realm and within the FBI are significantly improved compared to 8 years ago. This is just from my personal observation.

That said, there are still tremendous gaps yet to be bridged with the understanding of many procecutors and lawyers as well as weird applications of the law that aren't intuitive to people whose life is technology.

For example (and I caveat this with IANAL): Did you know the physical medium you get Internet to your house determines what laws and processes the government can use to monitor your Internet traffic?

[incahoots]

>Did you know the physical medium you get Internet to your house determines what laws and processes the government can use to monitor your Internet traffic?

That I did know, only because I was dumb enough to hitch my wagon to Comcast/Xfinity as a headend tech for years. Just affirmed the idea that all ISPs should be community owned.

[eszed]

> the physical medium you get Internet to your house determines what laws and processes the government can use to monitor your Internet traffic?

I did not! Do you have / know a good explanation of the details?

[rockskon]

From my (non-lawyer) understanding, if you have a coax cable connected to a cable modem providing Internet to your residence, your privacy is governed by https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/551

Other means of Internet getting to your residence is covered by Title 3 of the ECPA which, historically, Feds have played fast and loose with getting data from.