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LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

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Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

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post #42

Setting aside the release of this information, why was anyone able to get ahold of it? That's where the responsibility (and breach of public trust) starts.

Some of my friends work for Phoenix DPS. According to them, their "IT Department" (in quotes because according to them they don't really have an IT dept.) is...horrifyingly incompetent. Like really, really bad.

Like "negligent" bad?

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#52
post #27
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some cops are crooked so screw them all? This happens in every profession, not just law enforcement. Edit, to the poster below: There have been many cases where a man and women have sex and the woman later claims she was raped. Try to find a case of word vs. word (no other evidence) and the man was found not guilty. Now, try to find the opposite.

Every profession does not grant you the ability to send people to jail based on your word.

Or shoot people lying prostrate on the ground in the back and kill them.

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#53
post #48

Exposing home addresses and wife is uncool. Leave the home and family out of it.

If you attack someone, you make them a martyr. If you attack their wife and kids, you send a message.

Not a chance, on either count. Martyrs are not made simply by being attacked, and attacking wives and kids does nothing so romantic as "send a message". It tells the world you play dirty pool, and it makes you enemies- but not the steal-your-lunch-money kind.

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#54

Before anyone says, "Why harass these people? They're just trying to make a living." Think about it for a little while.

That's appropriate on many levels... As you intended, no doubt.

I'm glad one person got it.

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#56
post #44

They can't go back now. Before this, mostly what they were doing was small time. DOSing a website, or leaking some emails is annoying, this could potentially get people killed. This is max level from what I'm reading so far (others' reports, I'm not touching that torrent). Homeland security info, info on ongoing investigations, etc. etc. This might actually make lulz more dangerous. They have nothing to lose now. Bef…

The FBI probably already has their number and was waiting for something good to prosecute. They inject their filthy politics into their "lulz" and as far as I'm concerned they can go straight to damnation.

The press release wasn't written by them. [1] Also, "filthy politics"? Really? The best you can say of those who hold political views contrary to your own is that those views are "filthy"?

[1]http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/84075440024719361

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#57

"...describe the use of informants to infiltrate various gangs, cartels, motorcycle clubs, Nazi groups, and protest movements." FWIW, this probably means some people are going to die.

Until somebody shows me the names and covers of undercover agents, this means "acknowledging the fact that there are undercover agents".

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#58

There's certainly a bunch of interesting stuff in there, like how officers are instructed to place iPhone in nickel or copper plated containers in order to prevent remote wipes and a ton of information about gangs and smuggling. There's also other cool technical stuff in there, like how they gather digital evidence, information about hacker forums like ryan1918.com that have information on FBI honeypots and a book on…

> like how officers are instructed to place iPhone in nickel or copper plated containers in order to prevent remote wipes

Idea: a self-destruct mode where if your phone can't call home to check for remote wipe and kick an internal watchdog, it will prompt for local self-destruct override. Failing that, automatic wipe.

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#59

Exposing home addresses and wife is uncool. Leave the home and family out of it.

I don't know why they didn't just pass it over to WikiLeaks. They've been through that problem already, and have a process in place to delete that sort of stuff.

1) They clearly don't care about collateral damage, and

2) WL still isn't accepting submissions until DDB hands back their database.

Re: LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents

#60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's nothing noble about lulzsec. If someone rampaged through a neighborhood lock picking or crowbaring doors open and dumping the contents on the street out of some misguided sense of raising awareness about security how would people view them? Why should we view lulzsec any different?

Well, if the victims were planning to ethnically cleanse said neighborhood that would in fact shade the issue differently Noble isn't the word I would use by a longshot..in fact I think lulzsec is pretty stupid. but I'm also not going to go out of my way to defend a corrupt institution that happens to have the law on their side

The victims are planning nothing of the sort. The voters of Arizona and their elected representatives are the ones responsible for the laws that the officers in question have to enforce.
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