Another of those analogies

[drwex]

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/a-court-order-is-an-insider-attack/

Ed Felten poses the simple proposition that "a court order is an insider attack." The point he's making is that - from the point of view of system design - you cannot know the motivations nor context of an insider extracting data from a system. One example is a legal court order for a suspect's email; the analogous example is an extortionist's demand made against a vulnerable employee. Technologically, if you design a system to permit the first use you cannot then design it to prevent the second.

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Bruce Schneier posted about that recently. The comments section is the usual sometimes off-the-wall, sometimes insightful collection of notes by various security geeks.