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by darkarmani 4637 days ago
> The only reason they got the SSL key search warrant was his aggressive noncompliance with the pen register/pen trap.

What does this mean? Don't they have a the legal ability to force compliance?

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Yes, but it's not instant. He was asked for pen register, he wasn't 100% helpful (partially due to how the system was set up), so they went back in various ways to get what they wanted (threatening criminal or civil contempt charges, fines, and a warrant for ssl keys).

Then Ladar delayed on the warrant in a variety of ways (trying to quash a warrant, which I didn't know could be done before executing it; trying to claim it was invalid until after the pen trap was set up without it to actually observe it failing, the "little 4 points" trick.)