Want To Hunt Bank Robbers? There's an App For That, Says The FBI (networkworld.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader coondoggie quotes an article from Network World: The FBI today said it released a new application making it easier for the public -- as well as financial institutions, law enforcement agencies, and others -- to view photos and information about bank robberies in different geographic areas of the country.
The FBI's new "Bank Robbers" application runs on both Android and iOS, according to the article, "and lets users sort bank robberies by the date they occurred, the category they fall under (i.e., armed serial bank robber), the FBI field office working the case, or the state where the robbery occurred." The app ties into BankRobbers.fbi.gov, which overlays FBI information about bank robberies onto Google Maps.

The app's users "can also select push notifications to be informed when a bank robbery has taken place near their location," according to the FBI's site, which adds innocently that "If the location services on your device are enabled, you can view a map that shows the relevant bank robberies that took place in your geographic area..."

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Re:Perfect Alibi

[BlueStrat]

HRC intentionally kept State e-mails on her private server. Those e-mails are "born classified". There's your intent.

Thank you.

As someone who has worked for companies performing classified and higher projects under government contract, the excuses put out there by the shills are simply ludicrous and totally ignore decades of well-established laws and procedures regarding handling sensitive government information. Even the janitors at such facilities are briefed well enough to know what Hillary did was criminal in the extreme under multiple laws and official handling procedures.

It's obvious and blatant. If it were anyone else they'd be serving hard time. I'd feel the same about any politician of any party in a similar position who did the same things and we can talk about them too and likely largely agree, but this is here and now.

There is no more Rule of Law only Rule of Men...men (and women) who have wealth, power, connections, and hold themselves immune from the literally countless laws and regulations the masses are expected to comply with and pay a price for violating when they do not under threat of the use of deadly force with ignorance of any of the countless laws being no excuse.

That's literally countless reasons the government would use deadly force if it found it necessary to enforce compliance and/or to affect an arrest for violation if it so chose to do so, and the list grows at frightening speed. Those facts alone should frighten the hell out of any sane US citizen who was not already aware.

Strat

(My personal feelings regarding Hillary? From the looks I'd say the "Bug's" "Hillary-suit" is about done-in but it looks like she already has Will Smith flashy-thingied.)

Re:Perfect Alibi

[blindseer]

That's not intent to distribute classified material

Irrelevant. She intentionally had classified material on electronic systems that were not certified for storing them, that in itself is a crime.

What is there to misunderstand here? The data was "born classified" and she did not have the authority to declare something unclassified. This separation is intentional, the people that declare something classified cannot be the same people that receive it. Not even the Secretary of State can declassify the classified material she receives. I don't know the process on that but it is not a simple process. By placing that information on a system not deemed secured for classified material she has committed a crime. It is a crime even if she did not intend to transmit that to a person not deemed fit to receive it. It is a crime even if there is proof that it had not been taken by an adversary. The fact that the server was not monitored by the people at the Department of State there is no way to prove that the data was not copied by an adversary.

only to enable capabilities which were denied her and critical to job function in the information age.

I was going to write a lengthy paragraph on why you are wrong but instead I'll respond with a single word: Bullshit.