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Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

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Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

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Post by Gibbon1 »

mynameismonkey wrote: post #40
m463 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Brother in law put himself through college working as a plumber at night. Said after that he could go and wasn't afraid to go anywhere.

Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

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Post by Nasrudith »

mrlonglong wrote: post #15
katurian wrote: post #8

clever girl

With smarts like that she could make something of herself, rather than go down the path of criminality. Edited for typos.

There is also an issue of "specialities" and overlap of skills involved. Being good enough at forging and placing court documents doesn't necessarily translate to something with legitimate demand.

Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

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Post by space_ghost »

m463 wrote: post #39
supernova87a wrote: post #23

I 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.

Can confirm that this works in more places than you'd hope.

Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

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Post by ada1981 »

unimpossible wrote: post #38

With 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.

A competent hacker could deep fake zoom hearings and communications and have the actual prosecution dismissing the case on video.

Re: Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

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Post by clairity »

mynameismonkey wrote: post #40
m463 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

as a teenager, i remember marveling at a friend who could successfully walk into bars and order drinks. you have to both look the part and play the part (i could do neither).

even at places that carded, they wanted to serve you, so the ID had to only provide enough plausible deniability to the bouncer or bartender to credibly claim they were duped into serving you. i'm sure some bartenders secretly got a kick out of the cat and mouse game.

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