That Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 Apr 2021 @ 12:37pm
Gee, if only we over paid a buncha of morons to actually write privacy laws I dunno a decade ago.
Oh noes Chrome blocks these cookies!!
Umm use another browser? They are out there.
But then this is the brain trust who thought that Google is the internet & that we didn't need laws to punish Equifax for failing even the most BASIC security measures.
We left it to you to fix, & now that you have we're screaming you did it wrong.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 Apr 2021 @ 7:20am
Re:
Because the FBI is about headlines & soundbites.
They got a crack in the law, FOR THE CHILDREN!!!, & they needed to drive in a wedge to make sure the crack stayed open.
Who cares if they didn't manage to stop it, they can report about all of these shells they shutdown... ignoring that the owners of the servers are in exactly the same position as before. Vulnerable & if they look to see if they'd been hit... the evidence is gone so they can assume they are fine.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Apr 2021 @ 6:47pm
Re: Re:
Its performative theatrics to impress Congress.
(DHS head replicating the bridge of the STTNG Enterprise as his office comes to mind).
They reward results, not attempts.
This explains why the FBI has a steady stream of 'terrorist' busts that fall apart when you look at how they groomed the person to become a terrorist so they could bust them.
The IRS audits little people, because the rich have money & can fight back. They are rewarded for wins not tries.
(plus them leaving & getting cushy jobs with those they should have jailed)
The hired insurance execs to run the programs to help citizens after disasters. No one told them they were supposed to run the main fund out of money helping people. Now they look for every little thing they can because (shakes his head) not actually helping people in desperate need & save us money!
They care about awesome blinky lights & that any spying on citizens exempts them.
I mean I listened to the Congress person who's district covered the Hamptons cheering for Trump running MS13 out of his district.
O_O How do you run out what was never there?
It was a performance piece to be accepted uncritically.
Notice they spent way more time on "going dark" than answering questions how the fsck they missed Jan 6th being planned IN THE OPEN.
Soundbites & Headlines rule the nation instead of reason & rational thought.
Abstinence Only doesn't work but we still have it.
We demand people in 3rd world countries having survival sex not be informed about condom use or we cut off aid to them.
We donate prom dresses to disaster relief.
We need to stop giving everyone a ribbon for participating & start demanding basic common sense rule the day. Dumping a shitload of old clothes you were going to throw out to victims of a disaster doesn't make you a good person, it makes you someone to lazy to deal with their own trash & then claim they helped those poor people.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 16 Apr 2021 @ 12:57pm
"An attorney who works in this office"
LMFTFY
An attorney who formerly worked in this office...
Shot an unarmed 13 yr old in the chest, video showing empty hands, & still people are trying to play the well lets wait till we review & the of course he was right to murder a child i image i see a gun in the video.
People will yell & scream, but lets be honest not a fscking thing will change.
There are to many interested parties hellbent to keep things as they are & they are supported by those with money.
How else can you explain that after every mass shooting, thoughts & prayers are the only thing offered while we wait for the next one.
How many dead children is an outrage to the same people who rail for the unborn & do everything that can to punish women who dared to have sex outside of marriage or for fun instead of procreation?
But when a born child is murdered, oh thoughts & prayers...
Chicago will burn, everyone will deploy their playbooks...
Nothing will change... except the age of the next child murdered by cops.
They will lie about the event, tell you to not believe your own eyes, & just accept that every so often we have to sacrifice children on the altar of the police.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Apr 2021 @ 1:03pm
"There was no useful evidence recovered from Farook's work phone."
The tigers did not attack this time, but unless we purchase more tiger repelling rocks they MIGHT attack next time.
From the braintrust that has created more 'home grown' terrorists than actual terrorist groups, perhaps we need to stop treating them like they know what the hell they are doing.
Everyone ooohs and awwws when they roll up some poor sucker with an IQ of 75 they turned into a wanna be terrorist, but managed to be completely blindsided by every white nationalist terrorism incident that was openly planned & promoted and well lets be honest a bunch of their colleagues attended those events.
Perhaps if they started stopping actual terrorists planning in the open, we might consider their requests to break encryption a bit more before telling them to fsck off.
But they can;t tell us how many locked phones they have, how many people walked because phones remained locked, how their entire agency failed to investigate all possibilities b/c oh here is a phone it'll answer everything.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Apr 2021 @ 12:52pm
"according to rules set down by giant unelected corporations."
Ummm then write your own you blabbering idiots.
They made a franework to help, you then wanted them to violate users trust & they said no... and now claim they are the bad guys.
Sadly far to many people will grumble about how big tech is bad while ignoring the leaders telling them this let a whole bunch of them die needlessly.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Apr 2021 @ 7:32am
Sen. Blackburn put out a tweet someone should find & pass around more.
'Americans are flocking to Tennessee because we stand for FREEDOM and the AMERICAN way! We refuse to lock down and tell folks how to live their life. We value and trust Tennesseans to make personal choices for themselves.'
Unless your personal choice is not to be bent over by corporations for broadband, then we have a law telling you you can't have better cheaper service because mother knows best, because she helped shove that ghostwritten law onto those freedom loving americans for a few coins of silver in her coffers.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Apr 2021 @ 7:26am
And the very sad point lost in all of this...
No one cared until it hurt their record.
Suddenly they lose a bunch of slam dunk cases & they are upset.
If they cared about the law & justice they could have made sure this guy wasn't a lying asshole, looking back on the cases now its really clear he was lying to them but they never bothered to check.
Now they throw the book at the cop but the number of charges he is facing isn't high enough to account for his history.
They are all for stacking charges on citizens to overwhelm them, but are slowly reviewing this guys cases meanwhile people who were actually innocent of what they were charged with sit waiting for the system to get around to notice that the cop who testified against them lied in court alot.
But hey I'm sure he'll still have his pension & vacation days protected by contracts that forgive so many sins that would put the rest of us under the jail.
And while the refrain of its only a few bad apples, no one has the will to check the other apples to avoid hurting their record, truth & justice be damned... those people we convicted were bad and deserved it, even if we needed a liar to convict them.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Apr 2021 @ 3:10pm
Something something the version of the story they stopped telling after the video was out that there was no plate at all & the tint was sooooooooo dark (how dark was it) that Mitch McConnell wanted to take away its voting rights.
Of course in the video one can see the temp plate in the window.
So this excuse got shoved aside.
That state sen idiot who wanted to make QI a state level thing, should be forced to watch this video & explain how QI will make sure these idiots don't try to execute a citizen again.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 13 Apr 2021 @ 9:35am
"Sen. Dan Dawson, R-Council Bluffs, 'we're trying to preserve the current law of the land right now"
So it's okay when cops steal 400K from your home.
So it's okay when cops force your daughter to strip on the side of the road.
So it's okay when cops shove a baton into someones anus.
So it's okay when cops shoot completely innocent people because they heard a pop.
Perhaps maybe consider its the cops kicking citizens in the teeth over & over and you just gave them a pass to keep doing it.
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If only we forced Congress to deal with the regular service we get everyday.
The downside being that they couldn't do it while sitting at home between 8 - 4 for a tech who never rolls.
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Gee, if only we over paid a buncha of morons to actually write privacy laws I dunno a decade ago.
Oh noes Chrome blocks these cookies!!
Umm use another browser? They are out there.
But then this is the brain trust who thought that Google is the internet & that we didn't need laws to punish Equifax for failing even the most BASIC security measures.
We left it to you to fix, & now that you have we're screaming you did it wrong.
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See we used the tech on our own, now change the law so we can solve all the crimes.
On the post: FBI Flexes Rule 41 Powers, Uses Remote Access Technique To Neutralize Compromised Software All Over The US
Re:
Well the servers were already compromised...
And remained in that state.
On the post: FBI Flexes Rule 41 Powers, Uses Remote Access Technique To Neutralize Compromised Software All Over The US
"Whois records and IP address geolocation"
Because there is NOTHING more accurate than these things.
Did you see where my eyes went? They rolled way the fsck out of my head.
Same braintrust that held a family at gunpoint as pedophiles b/c no one bothered to see if the router was open or not.
This is a nice photo op for the FBI standing in front of the flag, looking all official, with a Mission Accomplished banner...
Sadly no one remembers what happened the last time we saw this photo op.
On the post: FBI Flexes Rule 41 Powers, Uses Remote Access Technique To Neutralize Compromised Software All Over The US
Re:
Because the FBI is about headlines & soundbites.
They got a crack in the law, FOR THE CHILDREN!!!, & they needed to drive in a wedge to make sure the crack stayed open.
Who cares if they didn't manage to stop it, they can report about all of these shells they shutdown... ignoring that the owners of the servers are in exactly the same position as before. Vulnerable & if they look to see if they'd been hit... the evidence is gone so they can assume they are fine.
On the post: Small Australian Company Cracked The San Bernardino Shooter's IPhone For The FBI
Re: Re:
Its performative theatrics to impress Congress.
(DHS head replicating the bridge of the STTNG Enterprise as his office comes to mind).
They reward results, not attempts.
This explains why the FBI has a steady stream of 'terrorist' busts that fall apart when you look at how they groomed the person to become a terrorist so they could bust them.
The IRS audits little people, because the rich have money & can fight back. They are rewarded for wins not tries.
(plus them leaving & getting cushy jobs with those they should have jailed)
The hired insurance execs to run the programs to help citizens after disasters. No one told them they were supposed to run the main fund out of money helping people. Now they look for every little thing they can because (shakes his head) not actually helping people in desperate need & save us money!
They care about awesome blinky lights & that any spying on citizens exempts them.
I mean I listened to the Congress person who's district covered the Hamptons cheering for Trump running MS13 out of his district.
O_O How do you run out what was never there?
It was a performance piece to be accepted uncritically.
Notice they spent way more time on "going dark" than answering questions how the fsck they missed Jan 6th being planned IN THE OPEN.
Soundbites & Headlines rule the nation instead of reason & rational thought.
Abstinence Only doesn't work but we still have it.
We demand people in 3rd world countries having survival sex not be informed about condom use or we cut off aid to them.
We donate prom dresses to disaster relief.
We need to stop giving everyone a ribbon for participating & start demanding basic common sense rule the day. Dumping a shitload of old clothes you were going to throw out to victims of a disaster doesn't make you a good person, it makes you someone to lazy to deal with their own trash & then claim they helped those poor people.
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Re: Re:
He was a cocaine addict before he found jeebus & the magic pillow.
On the post: Released Body Cam Footage Shows Chicago Cop Shoot And Kill An Unarmed 13-Year-Old
"An attorney who works in this office"
LMFTFY
An attorney who formerly worked in this office...
Shot an unarmed 13 yr old in the chest, video showing empty hands, & still people are trying to play the well lets wait till we review & the of course he was right to murder a child i image i see a gun in the video.
People will yell & scream, but lets be honest not a fscking thing will change.
There are to many interested parties hellbent to keep things as they are & they are supported by those with money.
How else can you explain that after every mass shooting, thoughts & prayers are the only thing offered while we wait for the next one.
How many dead children is an outrage to the same people who rail for the unborn & do everything that can to punish women who dared to have sex outside of marriage or for fun instead of procreation?
But when a born child is murdered, oh thoughts & prayers...
Chicago will burn, everyone will deploy their playbooks...
Nothing will change... except the age of the next child murdered by cops.
They will lie about the event, tell you to not believe your own eyes, & just accept that every so often we have to sacrifice children on the altar of the police.
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Something something last I checked they were still clearing donations to white nationalist groups...
On the post: The Pillow Dude's 'Free Speech' Social Media Website Will Moderate 'Swear Words' Because Of Course It Will
Cocaine... its a hell of a drug dot gif
On the post: Lying NYPD Narcotics Detective Just Cost Prosecutors Nearly 100 Convictions
Re: Re:
But bad people deserve bad things happening to them.
We only pretend the system is fair & that there is punishment for those who lie to the courts.
On the post: Small Australian Company Cracked The San Bernardino Shooter's IPhone For The FBI
"There was no useful evidence recovered from Farook's work phone."
The tigers did not attack this time, but unless we purchase more tiger repelling rocks they MIGHT attack next time.
From the braintrust that has created more 'home grown' terrorists than actual terrorist groups, perhaps we need to stop treating them like they know what the hell they are doing.
Everyone ooohs and awwws when they roll up some poor sucker with an IQ of 75 they turned into a wanna be terrorist, but managed to be completely blindsided by every white nationalist terrorism incident that was openly planned & promoted and well lets be honest a bunch of their colleagues attended those events.
Perhaps if they started stopping actual terrorists planning in the open, we might consider their requests to break encryption a bit more before telling them to fsck off.
But they can;t tell us how many locked phones they have, how many people walked because phones remained locked, how their entire agency failed to investigate all possibilities b/c oh here is a phone it'll answer everything.
On the post: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Google/Apple Criticized... For Seeking To Protect Privacy In UK Gov't Covid Contact Tracing
"according to rules set down by giant unelected corporations."
Ummm then write your own you blabbering idiots.
They made a franework to help, you then wanted them to violate users trust & they said no... and now claim they are the bad guys.
Sadly far to many people will grumble about how big tech is bad while ignoring the leaders telling them this let a whole bunch of them die needlessly.
On the post: Washington State Votes To Kill Law That Restricted Community Broadband
Sen. Blackburn put out a tweet someone should find & pass around more.
'Americans are flocking to Tennessee because we stand for FREEDOM and the AMERICAN way! We refuse to lock down and tell folks how to live their life. We value and trust Tennesseans to make personal choices for themselves.'
Unless your personal choice is not to be bent over by corporations for broadband, then we have a law telling you you can't have better cheaper service because mother knows best, because she helped shove that ghostwritten law onto those freedom loving americans for a few coins of silver in her coffers.
On the post: Lying NYPD Narcotics Detective Just Cost Prosecutors Nearly 100 Convictions
And the very sad point lost in all of this...
No one cared until it hurt their record.
Suddenly they lose a bunch of slam dunk cases & they are upset.
If they cared about the law & justice they could have made sure this guy wasn't a lying asshole, looking back on the cases now its really clear he was lying to them but they never bothered to check.
Now they throw the book at the cop but the number of charges he is facing isn't high enough to account for his history.
They are all for stacking charges on citizens to overwhelm them, but are slowly reviewing this guys cases meanwhile people who were actually innocent of what they were charged with sit waiting for the system to get around to notice that the cop who testified against them lied in court alot.
But hey I'm sure he'll still have his pension & vacation days protected by contracts that forgive so many sins that would put the rest of us under the jail.
And while the refrain of its only a few bad apples, no one has the will to check the other apples to avoid hurting their record, truth & justice be damned... those people we convicted were bad and deserved it, even if we needed a liar to convict them.
On the post: I Guess They're Not All On The Same Side: Cops Brutalize Soldier For [Checks Notes] Leading Them To A Well-Lit Area
Something something the version of the story they stopped telling after the video was out that there was no plate at all & the tint was sooooooooo dark (how dark was it) that Mitch McConnell wanted to take away its voting rights.
Of course in the video one can see the temp plate in the window.
So this excuse got shoved aside.
That state sen idiot who wanted to make QI a state level thing, should be forced to watch this video & explain how QI will make sure these idiots don't try to execute a citizen again.
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Its only bad when THEY do it, not when WE do it.
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I'm sorry we can't pay you this week, we were unable to find any records about you doing any work.
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"Sen. Dan Dawson, R-Council Bluffs, 'we're trying to preserve the current law of the land right now"
So it's okay when cops steal 400K from your home.
So it's okay when cops force your daughter to strip on the side of the road.
So it's okay when cops shove a baton into someones anus.
So it's okay when cops shoot completely innocent people because they heard a pop.
Perhaps maybe consider its the cops kicking citizens in the teeth over & over and you just gave them a pass to keep doing it.
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