amusingly enough, coming from the EU the site told me: "451: Unavailable due to legal reasons"
451 is a great status code, right up there with 418.
Not better than 420. You could say that 420 is the highest of all status codes
Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
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Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
#32The forensic details are lacking. Sure, it would be natural to suspect the person benefiting the most from the charges being dropped. However, do they have her personal home IP address shown accessing the system? Also, if the court system can be so easily manipulated, it might be time to take a look at that.
> In several instances, she used the New Hampshire court system’s electronic system to file documents.
This suggests that there is either no authentication (insane), or any display of the authenticated sender is being ignored by people just looking at the claimed sender in the headings of papers (disappointing, a failure of the court processes at the human level, and probably a UX shortcoming.)
Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
#33It amazes me that two and half years after the introduction of GDPR, sites like this still block EU residents.
Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
#34I guess this brings up and interesting issue -- once someone knows the ins and outs of a system, sometimes there are very few barriers internally to check that an order/paperwork is legit. There was a story in WSJ like last week about how the Japanese red stamp / seal still survives and is a barrier to them adopting new technology for practical every day speeding up of tasks. And keeps things like faxes around unnece…
Years ago I was working somewhere and instead of getting a supervisor to approve some minor thing we would just put in a supervisor id that was known to people. Eventually, we got caught because that person had quit working there a few years ago and someone saw her code being used to approve things.
Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
#35amusingly enough, coming from the EU the site told me: "451: Unavailable due to legal reasons"
It's just bulk distributed townnews dot com generated content. Search the name "Lisa Landon" to find the verbatim story in dozens of tabloid rags. Some of them are east of the Atlantic.
Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
#36I guess this brings up and interesting issue -- once someone knows the ins and outs of a system, sometimes there are very few barriers internally to check that an order/paperwork is legit. There was a story in WSJ like last week about how the Japanese red stamp / seal still survives and is a barrier to them adopting new technology for practical every day speeding up of tasks. And keeps things like faxes around unnece…
System resilliance is valuable. But ossified systems are resilient, simply inert.
Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
#37archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201028172931/https://www.union...
Thanks. I'm visiting the UK, and I'm astonished at how many sites are blocked.
Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
#38With the improvements in speech recognition, NLP, speech generation, I wonder how long before we can quickly spin up a network of false personas simply to provide "witnesses" or verify false information, or even provide alibis.
Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
#39I guess this brings up and interesting issue -- once someone knows the ins and outs of a system, sometimes there are very few barriers internally to check that an order/paperwork is legit. There was a story in WSJ like last week about how the Japanese red stamp / seal still survives and is a barrier to them adopting new technology for practical every day speeding up of tasks. And keeps things like faxes around unnece…
Just wear a hardhat and carry a clipboard.
Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
#40I guess this brings up and interesting issue -- once someone knows the ins and outs of a system, sometimes there are very few barriers internally to check that an order/paperwork is legit. There was a story in WSJ like last week about how the Japanese red stamp / seal still survives and is a barrier to them adopting new technology for practical every day speeding up of tasks. And keeps things like faxes around unnece…
Just wear a hardhat and carry a clipboard.
I used to participate in a city-wide water pistol assassination tournament. Skipped the hard hat, got white coveralls from Home Depot, pinned my work id to it, carried a clipboard. Got in everywhere I needed to be, including a heliport and a private boat dock. I forget where I read it, but the phrase "just act like you're supposed to be there" has stuck with me a long time, and paid dividends.