Why do people keep reflexively voting up any story about "Customs does something bad"? There's nothing particularly interesting or hacking-related here, it seems some people just want to promote the view that customs is out of control.
Do you not believe that they are actually out of control? Breaking peoples stuff for no good reason and basically telling them to fuck off seems pretty out of control to me.
How you could think there is nothing interesting about the people we pay to make our country safe going out of their way to cause harm is pretty far beyond my comprehension really.
Because if they posted "Customs does something right", they would be posting something ordinary (something that actually represents the majority of the events).
And that does not serve their narrative... That you have to be a victim living in a repressive police state which spends it's days attempting to beat you down.
So they do their best to post outliners ... that simply happen due to the sheer size and magnitude of the dataset.
I've never seen so many cringeworthy projections in a row.
These people are paid employees of the United States government. Them doing something ordinary is exactly what they should be doing. Them breaking peoples things for no reason whatsoever (there are many, many examples beyond this) is becoming more and more common and ALWAYS results in zero discipline or compensation. Your expectation that people just pretend like this isn't happening is completely ridiculous.
OP here. I think that a good portion of participants here are interested in this primarily because of the relationship with security. Admittedly, there isn't much here related with _hacking_ in the colloquial sense, but it is of interest to those concerned with their privacy getting hacked.
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Why do people keep reflexively voting up any story about "Customs does something bad"? There's nothing particularly interesting or hacking-related here, it seems some people just want to promote the view that customs is out of control.
"promote the view"
Do you not believe that they are actually out of control? Breaking peoples stuff for no good reason and basically telling them to fuck off seems pretty out of control to me.
How you could think there is nothing interesting about the people we pay to make our country safe going out of their way to cause harm is pretty far beyond my comprehension really.
Do you really think you got the whole story in that blog post which itself admits it has no details about what happened?
Certainly not. This was an update from the artist who had this happen to him. A prior article is here: http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/12/outrage-at-jf...
The parent article doesn't say much either, but I take it that the event happened, people are upset and the story is developing.
Because if they posted "Customs does something right", they would be posting something ordinary (something that actually represents the majority of the events).
And that does not serve their narrative... That you have to be a victim living in a repressive police state which spends it's days attempting to beat you down.
So they do their best to post outliners ... that simply happen due to the sheer size and magnitude of the dataset.
I've never seen so many cringeworthy projections in a row.
These people are paid employees of the United States government. Them doing something ordinary is exactly what they should be doing. Them breaking peoples things for no reason whatsoever (there are many, many examples beyond this) is becoming more and more common and ALWAYS results in zero discipline or compensation. Your expectation that people just pretend like this isn't happening is completely ridiculous.
OP here. I think that a good portion of participants here are interested in this primarily because of the relationship with security. Admittedly, there isn't much here related with _hacking_ in the colloquial sense, but it is of interest to those concerned with their privacy getting hacked.