I agree... In one case you're talking about killing someone and taking their organs to give to others and in the other we're talking about disrupting someones email usage to prevent bomb detonation. Can we see the difference here? I still don't see any reason that I would not give up my private information on a server in order to protect our country and thousands of lives... looking up some counter arguments though. I can't think of any good ones off the top of my head.
>> I still don't see any reason that I would not give up my private information on a server in order to protect our country and thousands of lives.
In the case of the service disrupted, that private information on the server could be what's protecting other lives in a country where basic rights are being disputed in blood.
Right, but who is to say that the FBI would release that information into the wrong hands? If that is the case then it sounds like the problem is with the way confidential information is handled by our intelligence agencies.
I'm not talking about the actual content, just that they had made the service unavailable to people that might direly need them. If you're fighting for democratic rights in a country with severely restricted freedoms, it might not be a matter of just checking back for the service to be up, probably you'd have limited windows to of oportunity operate. You may just have missed the chance to warn a fellow activist in time to save his life, or your own.
