Enforcers category archive
Thin-Skinned in Blue 0
You really can’t make this stuff up.
(snip)
Despite the fact that the bag carried an image of a cat and the phrase “All Cats Are Beautiful” beneath the letters ACAB, the police insisted it was an acronym for the punk phrase “All Cops Are Bastards”.
What is truly sad is that you don’t have to.
(The report goes on to point out that, in the 1970s–that is almost a half-century ago)–some British punk band that I never heard of had some song that I never heard called “ACAB” for “All Cops Are Bastards.” It would seem that these cops are trying to bring the music to life.)
Headline of the Day 0
Police apologize for raiding wrong house in Southwest Philadelphia
At least they apologized, and at least no one was killed. This time.
Twits on Twitter 0
Afterthought:
Be very clear. There’s more to this than just decoding de code. There’s a presumption that if you use encryption, you must have something to hide, an assertion that a desire for privacy is inherently suspicious. (In some ways, this point of view is eerily similar to the philosophy of the Zuckerborg.)
In a snail mail world, what the cops (and the NSA and GHCQ and the FBI and their like) want would be to steam open all your envelopes and read all your mail and all your everything else without showing cause (not that lots of them aren’t already doing that just because they can).
Absolute Power . . . 0
. . . does exactly what it is reputed to do.
The Wormhole in the Apple 0
For those of us trying to understand the who-shot-john between the FBI and Apple over iJunk encryption, this article from the EFF is worth a read.
Immunity Impunity
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Warning: Language.
In related news, my local rag yesterday carried a long story about Virginia’s proposed get out of jail free card for cops secret(ive) police law.
Immunity Impunity
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Republicans move to establish a secret(ive) police force in Virginia, apparently because they believe the no account should be no-accountable.
Immunity Impunity
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The short version of the District Attorney’s ruling is this: They were a-skeert, so they’re allowed.
Follow the link for more.
No Place To Hide 0
Thom talks with the ACLU’s Chad Marlow about privacy.
Immunity Impunity
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It it’s not captured in a photograpn, it must not have happened.