wars of attrition & reverse rubber hose & the ineffectiveness of direct lethal violence against the state

[coderman]

On 3/9/06, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ... if you're a small ISP and a couple of TLA clerks come demanding info
> about who's looking at what, tell them you can only hand over the records in
> person and then when they show up break an arm or leg or two. You'll be glad
> you did, and you can bet those clerks aren't going to do it again without a
> real Operation, which is a lot more costly and a LOT more visible.

(ah for the good old days; public discourse on proposed legislation
should provide the option of challenging your representative to a
duel.  *grin*
http://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html )

regarding resource consumption attacks to stem the capricious
execution of NSL's:

can you give them their requested data on cases of punchcards?  and
bill them for it?

most annoying and obscure data storage format as a feature; that's a
disturbing thought...
[would it be punch cards or bernoulli disks?]