A Tour of Taser HQ

Soychemist writes "Walk into the Taser headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona and it may seem like you are on an episode of Get Smart. The foyer is like a fortress, with giant steel doors and biometric identification systems. Inside, factory workers meticulously assemble the less-lethal weapons by hand and then put them through a battery of safety tests. In addition to making pistol-shaped devices, the company also produces the electronic equivalent of a claymore mine, which hurls dozens of electrified needles at the push of a button and electronic shotgun cartridges that deliver a powerful jolt."

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All this security is for show.

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The police informant networks have thoroughly penetrated Taser, Inc. (and most other large and mid-sized companies). Police informants take their first orders from the State, and do whatever their case officers ask them to, because if they don't they go to prison. Police informants are a lot more prevalent in the tech industry than you might think, because it is so easy to scare techies into turning informant ("become an informant or we send you to jail on this bullshit drug charge"). So, whenever the police, or someone with connections to the police, wants something from a company like Taser Inc., like the passcodes for an unactivated Taser, or an untraceable Taser, they just ask for it from an informant on the inside and get it, totally unaccountably.