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Jun. 24th, 2008 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchMississippi, FEMA and you.
let's see how much attention the press gives this story. none, i'm sure, since it's something the government, or a government agency, is doing right.
this, otoh, should be getting much, much more attention, and perhaps yelling from highest mountain tops. may i suggest to travelers to fedex your portable devices ahead of you.
good grief.
i love a comment the Electronic Frontier guy made about this essentially being industrial espionage. they'd be hard-pressed to argue the guy wrong - taking the article as facts at face value, of course.
better, though, and by better i mean oh ffs, was the [paraphrased], but, but, there could be intellectual copyright violations on those drives!!! yeah, and? like i used to tell my cops who would argue with me about how clearly they should have to argue probable cause against a "hunch", however accurate...sorry, buddy, but if you think you've got a crime then do your job and make a fucking case, complete with evidence, or have a coke and a smile and stfu.
let's see how much attention the press gives this story. none, i'm sure, since it's something the government, or a government agency, is doing right.
this, otoh, should be getting much, much more attention, and perhaps yelling from highest mountain tops. may i suggest to travelers to fedex your portable devices ahead of you.
good grief.
i love a comment the Electronic Frontier guy made about this essentially being industrial espionage. they'd be hard-pressed to argue the guy wrong - taking the article as facts at face value, of course.
better, though, and by better i mean oh ffs, was the [paraphrased], but, but, there could be intellectual copyright violations on those drives!!! yeah, and? like i used to tell my cops who would argue with me about how clearly they should have to argue probable cause against a "hunch", however accurate...sorry, buddy, but if you think you've got a crime then do your job and make a fucking case, complete with evidence, or have a coke and a smile and stfu.
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Date: 2008-06-24 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-24 11:44 pm (UTC)if they think they have a case, then make it...go get a warrant and *then* seize stuff...but don't do something so boneheaded on an operational day-to-day basis which totally undermines your validity and moral high ground. argh.