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For more than a decade now people on the mainstream parts of the internet have been casually joking about the getting on lists, the feds glowing and generally b
by throwaway0a5e 6y ago
For more than a decade now people on the mainstream parts of the internet have been casually joking about the getting on lists, the feds glowing and generally being mindful that the internet is well monitored and if you're gonna do something stupid you should leave your phone somewhere it can ping a tower to produce an alibi.
I don't think anyone who's more than a spur of the moment participant on either side of things is making the dumb opsec mistakes that the author and these comments are portraying as typical.
- louwrentius 6y agoA cynic could think that social media and the Internet exist for the sole purpose to aid law enforcement / the government. In the series Person of Interest, a joke is made where 'Harold' (a main character) claims to have invented social media exactly for this purpose.
- dboreham 6y agoLaw enforcement people constantly tell us that you can never underestimate the stupidity of criminals. Whether or not they're correct I don't know, but they keep saying it.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoI bet they get a lot of sampling bias.