Parallel construction is a farce and has no place in a legal system. The defendant is being intentionally lied to and thus unable to defend themselves. If you can not say how you got the info they should not be able to use it. Same goes for confidential informants. The people the NSA should be spying on are supposed to be dealt with via the CIA aka outside of the country assassinations.

ELK works but frankly it's defaults do just about nothing. As a stack sure it's great but it needs to be added as an adjunct to a real monitoring system and it needs useful defaults and/or some sort of add on repository. The opennms boys are working on showing rrd data into ES.

Pretty much you set up ELK and go great my logs are all one place but it does nothing by default nor is it easy to do anything useful with it. Adhoc searches of logs is great in all but your basically replacing ssh cat | grep. Take a common thing like percolating up an alert when a bit of redundant hardware fails and pushing that event into a ticketing system to the correct group and priority and ELK needs a lot of customization to do anything useful. Sure you can put an search in a window somewhere and make a human look but that is frankly going back 2 decades in sysadmin space. Devs seem to like it but it's pretty much an adhoc reporting tool for them.

That is a very different thing, if it was the companies data it matters not where the data is they have to produce it. This is about Microsoft trying to comply with an order for somebody else's data that is not under their control but they do have access to.

I run an IT business, this is much like getting an order to produce a clients data. Can I technically do it sure. If it was in the US I'm covered legally via the judge made me do it and possibly a gag order precluding me from disclosing that we did so. Now if it's foreign I'm committing a crime and do not have legal cover, some of us still want to leave the US from time to time. In neither case should my company be compelled to deliver that data, it's not ours to give. Doing so has the potential to ruin business relationships. Having it be the law in the US leads to no foreign company allowing a US one access to it's systems.

It is not hard ask an Irish judge to issue the order to Microsoft EU (or whoever). It seems they do not think disclosing this data would be legal in the EU and the request would be denied thus this end run. The US can and does get just this sort of thing all the time the EU just has better protections and thus a higher bar to meet to avoid fishing expeditions like this one.

Actually they data is in Europe the judge is trying to say since they have access to it from the US they need to turn it over. The data is under the control of a division incorporated in Europe.

There is established procedure to get this it called ask the European courts.

The federal judiciary has no enforcement powers those fall under the executive. Many state's have marshals that report to the courts and can enforce their orders.

Well look at it like the modem analogy. Dial up days you "paid" for the overhead as well the PPP overhead effectively reduced your max connection speed/throughput.

Even simpler if no recording then charges must be dismissed without other testimony. This should be belt and suspenders dashcam, bodycam and guncam all working together. Chance of 3 things failing at the same time for a fatal shooting are very low. Sure they might not be on the dashcam but a gun cam gives a great POV of the cop right before they fired and a body cam gives a more general overview.

Selective enforcement is a basic part of our separation of powers.

It can actually be baked into their resale bit. You know where they charge a 3rd party near as much as you or more to resell the DSL send the connections to them via an overpriced ATM circuit and they still have to deal with internet transit etc. All so they can say to the regulators that nobody else wants to sell DSL in their area or that since they have a couple token providers they are not a monopoly.

Often with AT&T they use this to separate the phone company side from the ISP side and suck the profits from the ISP side. Yup AT&T overcharges itself so it can cry poor and get rate hikes through.

PPPoE and ATM add overhead to about 16%.

Yup your paying for the encapsulation that never leaves their network.

They can cut off phone service in this and other countries but the theft is going to china etc that does not care or the be broken down to parts.

Not living anyplace earthquake prone, but generally prepared.

2 Generators (need to convert one or both to propane since that stores well)
A couple months supply of water, plus a reliable spring on property.
A few months on food. (just regular sundries that get rotated through)

It really surprises me when a blizzard happens and people are running to stock up. Sure I make a french toast run (Milk Eggs Bread) as boxed milk is expensive to regularly use, eggs well they go bad and powered eggs same as milk, and bread well its easier than making from scratch.

As to long term prep talk to the LDS people while I don't condone there or anybody else's religion they seem to have a love of being prepared.

As far as data goes personal backups are stored at multiple offsite facilities and have a portable copy of the critical stuff.

3 Phones
3 Tablets
2 Notebooks but wireless use is rare
1 roku (1 so wifi only)
1 Xbox 360
1 Printer (Large format inkjet)

Wired
2 R Pi
1 Custom arduiono compatible head end (acts as a bridge for several low speed wireless networks)
3 Desktops
1 Server
3 Roku
1 Laser printer

In total I've got 3 AP's and need 2 more to finish coverage of the house and garage. May add one to a tree fort. One of those AP's and the wired printer are via powerline ethernet as I've not had time to hard wire them.

Because reprocessing works, there is little reason to store high level waste it's valuable feed stock to our current commercial plants. New designs do not intentionally make a lot of weapons grade byproducts to feed cold war arms races.

Shh the eco freaks dislike fission get with the warm fuzzy of does not actually work tech.

Fission works ok now, we have the tech to use more efficient cycles, hell we have the tech to reprocess the fuel rods for existing plants.