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Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Albeit ill-gotten gains, if this lands in Wikileaks’ hands it’ll be fascinating.

You'd never see any of it. Depending upon who it damages, it either (a) wouldn't be published, or (b) it would be suppressed by media outlets for violating some obscure policy.

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Police taking selfie with terrorist: https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520 Police letting terrorists in: https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1346931235176783873

Here's another video of cops letting people in. https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/134759627858319769...

This is the video that really got me thinking about this: https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/kt2u9v/conf...

Not sure what happened, I hope we find out, but this video is especially damning.

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Storming? Let’s not get ahead ourselves here. The capitol police literally opened the door and let them inside: https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1347615270504955904... Which explains this hilarious picture of a 70-year old grandma “coup plotter” posing with coffee mug. https://twitter.com/TheRealEWILLZ/status/1346999976899932161...

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Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Storming? Let’s not get ahead ourselves here. The capitol police literally opened the door and let them inside: https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1347615270504955904... Which explains this hilarious picture of a 70-year old grandma “coup plotter” posing with coffee mug. https://twitter.com/TheRealEWILLZ/status/1346999976899932161...

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Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Have a shit battery + full disk encryption + linux with broken hibernate support :D

Did Linux ever fix the hibernate stuff? I remember 5 years ago, it was a MUST to disable it, because the system would go to hibernate and never wake up again without a hard restart.

if you are talking about 'suspend' generally, this really depends on the model (read: drivers), not sure on hibernate itself (since i just sleep)

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Beyond the information security risk around the loss of this specific device, what really worries me is the physical security implications here. I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but it seems to me like, in a building like the US Capitol, it should not be anywhere near this easy for unauthorized people to waltz into an office or conference room in the first place. Let alone walk away with items from within that…

The US Embassy in Amsterdam is better protected than the Capitol.

I think you should read up on how western countries typically prefer to have very light visible security in front of buildings like these. It sends a message of non-approachability if you have heavily-armed forces out front, which politicans don't like.

I'm assuming a similar security plan is in place in e.g. European countries' parliaments; extracting the high value targets is P1. The building is just a building; if it's damaged it can be repaired. And killing a bunch of people defending a building is a political no-go.

None of this applies to an embassy.

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Storming? Let’s not get ahead ourselves here. The capitol police literally opened the door and let them inside: https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1347615270504955904... Which explains this hilarious picture of a 70-year old grandma “coup plotter” posing with coffee mug. https://twitter.com/TheRealEWILLZ/status/1346999976899932161...

Maybe this will change your mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20m04s&v=cJOgGsC0G9U

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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I've traveled to countries before whose offices of government are behind very large fences, protected by unfriendly looking men standing behind heavy machine guns in armored vehicles – and the guide books are very clear that you are not to take photos of them. I much prefer the approach taken in the USA, where our offices of government are accessible to the people that the government serves. It's very good that I can…

Most days that’s fair. This week however, they should’ve had the unfriendly man with the M2. This was a predictable problem to literally everyone but the people in charge of protecting the capital.

there's more than a little suggestion that this was the intended outcome for the people protecting the capitol.

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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This can be correct, but so can GPs point: two possible findings are that the capitol police were deliberately left understaffed because * higher level leadership judged the threat of the protestors to be insignificant (incompetence) * higher level leadership wanted the potential for a mob to enter the building (complicity) However they found themselves in the position, they did, and once there I think they had an un…

Except for that part where they murdered an unarmed Air Force veteran.

It's not murder if it's legal. If you don't want to get shot, don't invade the seat of government during a constitutionally prescribed transition of power, break through a barricade, ignore a cop's orders and approach a cop pointing his gun at you. Hard, I know.

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

#170

Albeit ill-gotten gains, if this lands in Wikileaks’ hands it’ll be fascinating.

I bet it won't be, cause it's congress. I'm no small stater, but we need to find a way to put the interesting stuff back in democratic control...like a parliamentary system that recognizes executive vs legislative division is a bad idea.

It’s not just Congress, it’s Nancy Pelosi.

Mitch McConnell’s documents would be similarly interesting.

I’d love to see how these two speak to their donors and each other vs how they speak to the public, for example.

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