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.

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Widespread abuse of power and corruption.

[hackus]

It is all over the place. Watch the news.

American society is a ticking time bomb, 1 in 4 kids are now on food stamps, the unemployment figures have potentially reached critical mass of 21% where money comming in vs money going out only makes it a matter of time now.

Pick one:

1) Death by civil unrest.
2) Death by starvation and hyper inflation.
3) Death by war, which the power elite are already planning.

There is so much criminality running rampant now in our government no amount of voting I believe will change the outcome of the above three choices.

Due to the terrible weapons technology the power elite now control, owning a gun is essentially useless. If number one is pursued, millions will be squashed like a bug trying to apply the consitutional fail safe of bearing arms and destroying tyranny.

It is all going to end very badly and personally, my bet is on #3.

After the war is over, a new dark age for mankind will be the spoils for the victor.

-Hack