I believe I’m the Google engineer who wrote the code described in footnote 7 of the FBI brief. Scary! (And amusing!)https://twitter.com/JennaMC_Laugh/status/708041942072844288 …
Former head of the webspam team at Google. Currently working in DC. Opinions are my own.
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Paul Haahr Retweeted Jenna McLaughlin
I believe I’m the Google engineer who wrote the code described in footnote 7 of the FBI brief. Scary! (And amusing!)https://twitter.com/JennaMC_Laugh/status/708041942072844288 …
Paul Haahr added,
@mattcutts In fact, I think you may have been the one to volunteer me to the lawyers to do it… 
@mattcutts No problem. I do find it discouraging, though. We spent weeks arguing with the DOJ’s expert witness to /1
@mattcutts minimize privacy/confidentiality threats and it comes back as “look how wiling Google was to do our bidding.” Grrrr. /2
@haahr @mattcutts heh. was that the DoJ wants to know how much porn searches happen on Google case?
@dannysullivan @mattcutts Yep. Decent summary of early moves at http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/01/doj_fishes_for.htm …
@haahr @dannysullivan Goldman's article highlights how the original DOJ req. in Gonzales was *outrageously* overbroad: 2 months of queries?!
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