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Criminals Used a Fleet of Drones To Disrupt an FBI Hostage Operation (fortune.com)
Criminals have discovered another use for drones -- to distract and spy on law enforcement. From a report: They recently tried to thwart an FBI hostage rescue, Joe Mazel, chief of the FBI's operational technology law unit, said this week, according to a report by news site Defense One. Mazel, speaking at the AUVSI Xponential drone conference in Denver, said that criminals launched a swarm of drones at an FBI rescue team during an unspecified hostage situation near a large U.S. city, confusing law enforcement. The criminals flew the drones at high speed over the heads of FBI agents to drive them away while also shooting video that they then uploaded to YouTube as a way to alert other nearby criminal members about law enforcement's location.
Its not going to be long before someone figures out how to strap a bomb on a drone and attack a crowd or fly it into a building and set it off. Its just a matter of marrying two existing things together to attack. The only way to counter something like this would be a signal jammer of some kind. All the more reason we need better control and tracking of drones.
So do law enforcement go out of their way to hire nothing but pansy ass cowards that will piss their panties at anything but total obedience - or is it passed down from old timer pansies to the noobs when they go thru their how to be a chicken shit training.
Who says that happened?
The FBI?
Got any independent corroboration?
who?
Manning or Clinton?
Both of them, hard to say who is more ugly.
*which
'The incident remains âoelaw enforcement-sensitive,â Mazel said Wednesday, declining to say just where or when it took place. But it shows how criminal groups are using small drones for increasingly elaborate crimes.'
Just trust us that this took place.
This, from the same organization that keeps claiming that encryption on cell phones should be open to the FBI and that this doesn't present any risk to normal users' security.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Both of those dudes are fucking ugly. They look like fetal alcohol syndrome survivors.
Both of them, hard to say who is more ugly.
Neither of them. Chelsea Club premmie league.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
I HIGHLY doubt this event never happened outside of a staged event that they will use as a talking point to develop policy and maybe even future legislation. FBI has become borderline domestic enemy by all their staged "plots" that are born within the agency; that they play out using the dumbest criminals they can cultivate.
Or Truth and Justice, or 'Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness':
This is your last call to emigrate from America If you choose to stay, know you made your own bed and go and quietly lay in it.
It wasn't exactly for this reason that my great grandfather kept a shotgun loaded with rock salt, but I think it would work here, too.
This "article" is so insane I'm surprised the author was able to type it as I'm sure they were laughing so hard they couldn't keep their hands on the keyboard. Kind of reminds me of the NYC case where a police helicopter claimed that a drone came straight after them doing maneuvers a modern fighter jet would have trouble accomplishing. Later FAA radar proved that it was the police who went after the drone at much more mundane speed. Or that case (it was in a park over a river of some kind) where a police helicopter claimed a drone was flying wildly and invading their airspace when video footage from the drone clearly showed it flying quite low and slow over a pretty empty park area as the police helicopter approached it from above flying dangerously low and tried to knock it out of the air with its rotor wash. I'm sure that drones are misused, but their potential for misuse is extremely exaggerated by people with an ax to grind and most cases that I have seen the drone owner is the victim of some paranoid idiot with delusions of grandeur.
Due to an uprising of drone discontent in zone 37, All you're drone are belong to us!
Is there a difference between FBI and criminals?
If the criminals uploaded the video online I am sure it would have become viral by now. Such a provocative video would be nearly impossible to keep quiet. So where's the link, I wanna see the swat team running away like the scene from Monty Python. "RUN AWAY!"
"The criminals flew the drones at high speed over the heads of FBI agents to drive them away while also shooting video that they then uploaded to YouTube as a way to alert other nearby criminal members about law enforcement's location."
That's criminals for you - All criming together in spontaneous coordinated multi-felony attacks. It's for real. You need to watch a this segment from a 80's crime documentary, then think about what would have happened with drones AND encryption! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt33ElBL5nI
"Life is life." --Laibach
Or just the FBI doing it to themselves?
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That is all.
Not quite what you're thinking of, but I love the Bug-A-Salt, which fires a near-invisible puff of table salt at flying insects. Better than a flyswatter, doesn't splatter the bug, but brings them down. Also good for spiders that sends my lady screaming. Nowadays, when she sees a spider, she screams, and then grabs the Bug-A-Salt and downs the spider. Take that!
It's so great that I actually hope to see some houseflies around the home. Disappointingly, they have generally steered clear.
404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
[GPG key in journal]
This should go beyond felony. IMO this borders on treason, since the action of the "criminals" has made them effectively enemy combatants.
People could have disrupted the Waco incident ... which over 60% of US citizens believe was criminally botched by the Clinton FBI.
Fasts forward a couple decades and the DoJ is trying to oust an elected president so it can GOVERN-SPLAIN to voters they aren't qualified to pick their own leaders.