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by BLKNSLVR
886 days ago
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They're understaffed because they cut headcount assuming that more data will help them to catch more 'bad guys' with fewer resources. Part of the problem is that they don't employ enough people smart enough to use the data in mathematically and statistically accurate ways. They only look at 'bad', and don't seem to have any realisation that there could be an offset for 'good', or at least 'not bad'. I'm strongly biased in this opinion having personally been on the end of police misinterpretation of data. I was specifically told the following (by a Lead Investigator, not just a plod): - Use of Mega is suspicious - Having virtual machines is suspicious - Having tor on your computer (their wording) is suspicious Top of their fucking class they must have been. |
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> Anything that evades oversight and investigation or makes police's job harder is suspicious
They don't actually consider privacy as legitimate or justified. They think protecting oneself is "suspicious", criminal behavior. It's just like the guy who hires a lawyer instead of talking to police -- obviously guilty. In their minds, upstanding people just expose everything for all to see without a care in the world and let the chips fall where they may. They see themselves as people who are weighed down by checks and balances and basic civil rights and other such forms of worthless, meaningless red tape. Just think how many criminals this guy might arrest if he had limitless power like the NSA. He totally wouldn't get caught spying on his wife like all the others, no sir.