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Seattle Hacker Catches Cops Who Hid Arrest Tapes
An anonymous reader writes "In 2008, the Seattle Police illegally arrested security consultant Eric Rachner for refusing to show ID. After Rachner filed a formal complaint, he was prosecuted for obstructing, and the police claimed that videos of the arrest were unavailable — until Rachner's research uncovered proof that the police had the videos all along." It's an interesting story of how he figured out how the system in use by Seattle police automatically tracks deletion, copying, or other uses of the recorded stream.
Probably that the default position of the police is to trust, and that of the gangster is to distrust.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Exactly. Which would leave the local security and power void I need to begin Operation Tragic[1] Destiny, in which I seize control of the world's greatest economy by leveraging the power of my hand-picked local security forces across municipalities in the US.
Mwu-ha-ha-ha.
[1] It's tragic because moments after I achieve total domination of the US economy, I realize it's been surpassed individually by the economies of China, India, and Europe, and is struggling futilely to not be surpassed by the economies of the Pac Rim, Russia, South America, and the nascent powerhouse economy of Madagascar. (It's a long-term plan).
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
-1, White
IMNAL = I Might Need A Lawyer?
How many more isolated incidents from statistically insignificant "bad apples" does it take before people realize that this behavior is closer to rule and not exception?
Sir Humphrey: "These are just a few isolated examples..."
Jim Hacker: [waving a large folder of papers] "I've got another 700 isolated examples here"
FGD 135
From A Child's Garden of Grass
"Your paperss pleass!!"
"Uh, I only got a pipe, man."
"Zen you'll haff to com vit me!"
Free Martian Whores!
Only if the topic veers into Scientology.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I spent a number of years in Boston as an Australian.
The only time it was necessary to carry a passport was when I wanted to have a drink at a bar. They card everyone. Unfortunately, carrying your passport and getting drunk are not circumstances that generally lead to a happy conclusion.
No, obviously your confusing
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Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
You are so fucking dumb I expect your head to implode.
They don't need your name to arrest you. Had they actually had a reasonable suspicion that he had broken a law they could have arrested him immediately.
The only thing they didn't need was his name.
I heard some good advice recently, tell me what you think: Try a little nuance in your thinking
I think it's a good idea, but you don't seem to...
not everything is black and white, the hero fighting the villain. Sometimes it's just two villains fighting.
After all there's ZERO evidence that this guy is even a jerk, let alone that he did anything wrong, and you're trying as hard as Glen Beck to paint him as the problem.
There's a rape victim. Go not-so-subtly blame her clothing, or judgment. Quickly, for great justice!