If you add up all the charges on breaking into the Capitol, the Speaker's office, the theft, the computer security laws, etc., they could probably get a 100 year sentence, and I hope they prosecute it fully.
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I could pull up pictures of police kneeling with BLM this summer.
Yeah, they kneeled for the photo op, then deployed tear gas an hour later.
Deploying tear gas like they did in the Capitol here:
https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1346948665013751809
https://twitter.com/RichieMcGinniss/status/13469488668689776...
https://twitter.com/KathrynDiss/status/1346947617893265421
I saw a video yesterday of tear gas being used inside the capitol building but today I was only able to find videos of when it was used outside.
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I don't understand why Windows 10 doesn't take an encryption first approach. When you install Windows 10, it should default to having disk encryption checked.
Not certain this is the reason why, but there is a real perf hit for full disk encryption which not everyone needs to take, especially for devices without hardware accelerated crypto. Lower end devices can slow to a crawl.
Can you specify what are those devices which do not have hardware encryption support? Processors have had hardware support for ages. On the Intel side, at least from 2006, with the Core2Duo.
Any modern system(even on the low end) that you could conceivably want to trust important data to can handle encryption requirements with ease.
One problem if we are talking about Bitlocker specifically is that if the drive reports that it supports encryption, then Bitlocker offloads the responsibility to the drive. And the drive encryption might be badly implemented.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#384How was every person leaving the building not searched by police as a condition of exit? The kettling and taking of details of (even peaceful) protesters in the UK is pretty standard now (I don't like it, but it is what seems to happen) - so why did they just let these people leave unchecked?
Clearly the police were outnumbered to a degree that they couldn't prevent them from getting inside in the first place, so why would they have sufficient forces to search these individuals on exit?
Because hundreds of additional police officers and members of the national guard arrived in order to secure the building?
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#385There needs to be a whole lot of 10+ year sentences handed out. Obviously anyone directly involved in the officer's death will have the book thrown at them and probably never see the outside of a cell again, but all these people need to be made an example of.
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Why do you think any of your rogue nation club have any interest hacking US politicians , except for, probably, blackmail? US is an open society, and most US politicians speak what they think, or at least you can guess, or even ask them yourself! Those people are like open books. Unlike of your usual cabal totalitarians, who either don't speak at all, or purposefully try to hide their real aims by engaging in double…
Seems safe to assume that the Speaker of the House and her aides would have access to classified national intelligence that might not be open to the world, and would be valuable in it's own right. Things like progress and updates with Covid vaccines, their deployment plans, and lack of security around them would make information like it ripe for the black market and adversary governments in these times.
Access to classified intelligence means that they are allowed to enter a secure room/facility and view the material. They still should not be taking said material out into an unclassified environment.
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Seems safe to assume that the Speaker of the House and her aides would have access to classified national intelligence that might not be open to the world, and would be valuable in it's own right. Things like progress and updates with Covid vaccines, their deployment plans, and lack of security around them would make information like it ripe for the black market and adversary governments in these times.
What would enemy spies get out of that. Even prima fascie top military secrets like battle plans (those must be updated and shuffled regularly to prevent a situation exactly like that) have very little immediate usefulness. It's 21st century, it's beyond anybody's ability to hide things like size, dislocation, and basic capabilities of your force
Oh you think the generals readily involve old Pelosi with the battle plans? I sort of doubt they would trust her with anything digital that’s supposed to be a secret.
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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…
As a huge democrat (lower case d) I totally agree. Locking down the Capitol is antithetical to the notion of open democracy. Lawmakers and the law making process needs to be physically accessible by the People. This was what the Founders intended. Of course there is some risk here and Jefferson himself noted this. That’s the price we pay for living in an open and transparent society. While I don’t condone or support…
> the People have every right to enter the building and demand accountability.
the "People" can't just do whatever they want just because they feel like it. Can they go and bang hammers on nuclear warheads because the warheads "belong to the People"? Storm the doors of JPL and play horsey on the Mars Rovers?
When some subset of the "People" attempt to overthrow the duly elected government of the other 99% of the People, they are traitors, and should be erased from society.
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Maybe this will change your mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20m04s&v=cJOgGsC0G9U
It's a real testament to the effectiveness of the BLM protests that the police took a good hard look at themselves and decided to use a light touch from here on out.
FiveThirtyEight recently covered a study that does indicate police have always been issuing a lighter touch to alt-right/conservative movements.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-respo...
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#390I feel sorry for whoever gets caught with it. They won't be charged with theft - they'll probably try to hit them with the worst cybersecurity charges they can dig up.
I assume the downvotes means my intended sarcasm didn't come through. To be clear, I hope everyone involved in the terroristic insurrection is prosecuted fully.
We know that the government typically uses cybersecurity charges to attack cyber-libertarians, threatening decades of prison time (think Aaron Swartz) - I hope they show the same vigor here.