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FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

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Re: FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

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Post by maccolgan »

eru wrote: post #20
__m wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds more like the American model. In Germany for example the SEK was formed after SWAT, in response to a terror attack in Munich. Unless there is some serious crime, where guns are involved, the judge won’t send a special unit. Pictures of guns drawn on unarmed people seem to be mostly coming from the US.

In the UK, most police don't even carry guns normally.

Now I understand why the UK has so many policing problems

Re: FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

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Post by dusted »

This simply has to stop. Text-book messenger shooting. If anything, law should be reversed, exposing private information online, either unprotected or behind inadequate protection (default user/pass, weak encryption or previously compromised credentials) should be a criminal offense.

Re: FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

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Post by jacquesm »

brigandish wrote: post #5

> As they handcuffed him, his 9-year-old daughter cried in terror The police in America are well beyond the line of "citizen" police, you have the continental European model of two police forces, civil and military, and it's hard to see that there's much civil, it's more like ordinarily armed military force and a ready-for-war military force. It hasn't helped produce liberty or better enforcement in Europe, I can't s…

Police in Europe is quite different from country to country, between the French, German, Spanish and say Dutch police the difference is huge. But nothing that I'm familiar with comes close to describing the police force that you apparently have as a model for the EU. Even the former SovBloc states, where the police traditionally have more problems than in the Western part of the EU in terms of corruption and having to deal with overt violence are not covered by your description. I've lived on the US border for quite a few years and even the difference between the Canadian police and the US police was night and day.

Would you mind explaining which country in the EU you believe has this model that you describe?

Re: FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

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Post by mjbeswick »

brigandish wrote: post #5

> As they handcuffed him, his 9-year-old daughter cried in terror The police in America are well beyond the line of "citizen" police, you have the continental European model of two police forces, civil and military, and it's hard to see that there's much civil, it's more like ordinarily armed military force and a ready-for-war military force. It hasn't helped produce liberty or better enforcement in Europe, I can't s…

You clearly have no understanding of how the police work in European countries!

Re: FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

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Post by amarant »

rPlayer6554 wrote: post #28
__m wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds more like the American model. In Germany for example the SEK was formed after SWAT, in response to a terror attack in Munich. Unless there is some serious crime, where guns are involved, the judge won’t send a special unit. Pictures of guns drawn on unarmed people seem to be mostly coming from the US.

I've physically seen many police walking around crowded areas with assault rifles in France and Italy. Germany not as much but they do carry pistols iirc.

Italy does have what they call carabinheri (unsure of spelling?), which is basically a special kind of police that has automatic rifles. They do seem to patrol pretty much like normal police though, so I'm not sure what the distinction is other than the armament

Re: FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

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Post by phoneperson »

vultour wrote: post #23
brigandish wrote: post #5

> As they handcuffed him, his 9-year-old daughter cried in terror The police in America are well beyond the line of "citizen" police, you have the continental European model of two police forces, civil and military, and it's hard to see that there's much civil, it's more like ordinarily armed military force and a ready-for-war military force. It hasn't helped produce liberty or better enforcement in Europe, I can't s…

Are you American? This assessment of European police is so wrong I can't fathom how you got it. I've never even seen an armored police vehicle.

They are quite common here.

Re: FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)

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Post by encryptluks2 »

worker767424 wrote: post #17
barelysapient wrote: post #2

I mean, who honestly even wants to 'responsibly' disclose anything like this if they live in the US? The risks of assault rifle toting FBI agents coming for coffee at six AM outweighs any benefit I can think of.

Seems safer to sell it on the dark web for some sweet monero and wait for the statute of limitations to expire.

Statute of limitations doesn't always start as soon as something happened. Many times, it only starts once it has been discovered or could have reasonably been discovered.
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