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Leaving the core of the article aside, I am fascinated by the FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge officially saying "a quick search of the Interwebs". Either he's
by probably_wrong 5y ago
Leaving the core of the article aside, I am fascinated by the FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge officially saying "a quick search of the Interwebs". Either he's really young or someone at the CoinTelegraph has one of those XKCD auto-replace plugins [1] and forgot to turn it off.
[1] https://xkcd.com/1288/ https://xkcd.com/1288/
- jffry 5y agoThat phrase is directly quoted from a press release on the official US Department of Justice website for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/popular-instagram-personality-known-jay-mazini-charged-wire-fraud https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/popular-instagram-perso... So I think somebody at the Justice department has an extension like that installed.
- karatinversion 5y agoThe guy’s page [1] says he joined the FBI in 1998 - in my mind that puts him in his early to mid forties, maybe? Say he joined at 23. The top urbandictionary entry for “interweb” dates from 2003; our man is 28 and by no means incapable of taking on new slang terms. [1] https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/newyork/assistant-director-in-charge-william-f-sweeney-jr https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/newyork/assista...