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FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

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Re: FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

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Post by hobs »

stonecraftwolf wrote: post #17
hcurtiss wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If that was an actual insurrection or attempted assassination, it was the weakest effort imaginable. That doesn’t necessarily change the thrust of your comment (that enforcement is appropriate) but the breathless hyperbole around what happened has really surprised me. An actual insurrection would have looked very different. More guns and C4, fewer selfies.

Just because you failed at crime doesn’t mean you didn’t commit a crime. Attempted murder is still a thing. And I think you should probably read more about what actually happened. The initial photos were of idiots in horns and face paint and that has colored the public perception of what happened, but the clownshow gave cover to a smaller number of organized militia types compromised of former and active duty militar…

Dont forget all the explosives that were removed.

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Post by ghouse »

NDizzle wrote: post #11
SantalBlush wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now, I'm more concerned about the people who broke into the Capitol and tried to take away my voting rights.

They were reacting to their voting rights being taken away. Seems like a better response than vandalizing a Starbucks.

Were they reacting to their voting rights being taken away, or reacting to having been led to believe that their voting rights were taken away? I have seen no credible evidence that they were disenfranchised.

Re: FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

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Post by [deleted] »

gibrown wrote: post #4
sneak wrote: post #2

Presumably this also includes journalists and other people the government has no business tracking. At what point will people say enough is enough to these kinds of insane overreaches?

Huh? Insane? The capitol was assaulted in order to prevent the democratically elected president. An actual insurrection which maybe had some attempted assassination and theft/sale of national security secrets mixed in. Seems like a pretty reasonable response.

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Post by tiziniano »

SantalBlush wrote: post #6
sneak wrote: post #2

Presumably this also includes journalists and other people the government has no business tracking. At what point will people say enough is enough to these kinds of insane overreaches?

Right now, I'm more concerned about the people who broke into the Capitol and tried to take away my voting rights.

Don't be so emotional, they were only taking your illusion of them.

Re: FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

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Post by dylan604 »

NDizzle wrote: post #11
SantalBlush wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now, I'm more concerned about the people who broke into the Capitol and tried to take away my voting rights.

They were reacting to their voting rights being taken away. Seems like a better response than vandalizing a Starbucks.

Except, their voting rights were not taken away. They voted for a candidate that received fewer votes than his opponent. They didn't like the results. They were fed deliberate lies and baseless theories, and acted upon bad intelligence.

Re: FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

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Post by foolfoolz »

every few seconds your phone (if not in airplane mode) will contact all base stations whiting in range and send a globally unique identifier to it. it doesn’t matter if the base station is for your company or if it’s fake (stingray). even if the tower does not give you access, maybe it’s not the company you’re a subscriber for, they still know you were in that area

Re: FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

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Post by hobs »

NDizzle wrote: post #11
SantalBlush wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now, I'm more concerned about the people who broke into the Capitol and tried to take away my voting rights.

They were reacting to their voting rights being taken away. Seems like a better response than vandalizing a Starbucks.

They were reacting to lies about their voting rights being taken away, no such thing occurred.

Storming the capitol because a bunch of con-men tricked you is not a better response than almost... anything?

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Post by jacquesm »

Zenst wrote: post #16

I just get: "Access Denied You don't have permission to access " http://www.wusa9.com/article/features/producers-picks/fbi-tr... " on this server."

Another company that doesn't understand the first principles about data privacy and the GDPR.

Re: FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

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Post by taneq »

caseysoftware wrote: post #13
hcurtiss wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If that was an actual insurrection or attempted assassination, it was the weakest effort imaginable. That doesn’t necessarily change the thrust of your comment (that enforcement is appropriate) but the breathless hyperbole around what happened has really surprised me. An actual insurrection would have looked very different. More guns and C4, fewer selfies.

"More guns" is right. I watched it live and then dug through the videos, selfies, etc after and inside the Capitol, I found one guy who might have had a gun. The other weapons appear to have been convenient - a fire extinguisher, flags, etc. It looks less and less like an "insurrection" and more like jackasses doing jackass things.

This is a good point - this is the same group that is very gun rights focused and has been wandering around the streets armed with automatic weapons. It's kind of weird to see them without guns.
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