IAAL and here's a presentation I gave at ShmooCon and DefCon last year entitled "They Took My Laptop! - 4th and 5th Amendment Explained." The Defcon video isn't available yet, unfortunately, since the content is more up to date. The video goes into a decent amount of depth on the current body of laws in regards to laptop seizures. Anyway, thought it might be of use.

Cheers,
T

It's known as a long arm jurisdiction ( link ). Generally, the test is if the entity had sufficient contact with the jurisdiction. In this case I would guess it was based on the fact that the website was reachable, and more importantly, foreseeably reachable by American (Californian) citizens.

Or jurisdiction may have been waived. I didn't bother to pull the filings off PACER --sorry.

Actually, sometimes they do.

Just for reference, all Federal Court and several State courts require, and some will even provide them free of charge, mediation sessions before a case is allowed to go to trial. Statistically, aka. take it with a grain of salt, 98% of cases settle when taken to mediation.

Second, some laws do require notice before claims are allowed. The dreaded and oft hated DMCA requires notices in certain circumstances. Additionally, there are requirements on most statutes involving administrative agencies that all administrative remedies must be exhausted required and I'm sure there are more examples.

In conclusion, people do think of this. Maybe there are just too many law suits, or maybe people are afraid to talk to each other anymore?

Cheers,
TdC

If you watch the video he sets the keyboard.eavesdropper into a listening/polling state waiting for keypress information. From there it's filtered and decoded --fine. Now the part that seemed odd to me is it exits as soon as it finds the 'e' in 'trust no one', why?

If the eavesdropper is in a polling state it should continue looking for more keypresses, unless something there are some smoke and mirrors going on. Also, if you listen there's no termination sent --no keypresses heard on camera.