31 Quotes by David Sobel

Where the basis of the request comes from is that the government itself has revealed nothing about these initiatives. The objective here is to move beyond unnamed DOT sources to really make public on an official basis some of the details.

When this kind of power is used in the regular criminal justice system, there are some built-in checks and balances. The intelligence context provides no such protection. That's the main problem with these kinds of secretive procedures.

The plaintiff asked for a permanent injunction to affect individuals other than the two defendants who have agreed to this.

We're seeing what might be the tip of the iceberg at the FBI and across the intelligence community. It indicates that the existing mechanisms do not appear adequate to prevent abuses or to ensure the public that abuses that are identified are treated seriously and remedied.

But they can notify the user so he can question the legitimacy of the subpoena.

But AOL does not in writing guarantee they'll provide notice.

We're now at a critical point in this debate, ... and the balance could really go either way.

There are some very legitimate community concerns that a lot of companies would like to conceal in the name of fighting cyber-terrorism, ... It will become too easy to hide behind the shield of critical infrastructure protection in the same way that organizations in the past hid behind 'national security' to protect information that they didn't want to have disclosed.

I suspect that it is one of the best solutions that we've seen,