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A simple illustration of how it could be useful: Search and rescue teams. Somebody notices my car parked there with the whiteboard laying on the dash saying "
by LorenPechtel 5y ago
A simple illustration of how it could be useful: Search and rescue teams.
Somebody notices my car parked there with the whiteboard laying on the dash saying "Griffith Shadow 3/24". Any responsible hiker seeing that is going to call it in.
The search and rescue team will look at that whiteboard and note the label tape at the bottom with various bits of information. It should be obvious that I'm inviting search and rescue to use the information printed there, why should a judge be involved?
(And the S&R guys will know it's probably serious--from reading that board they know I should have been able to call for help.)
- zardo 5y agoHere's another use. I'm a cop and I want to know where my ex-wife is.
- atoav 5y ago> It should be obvious that I'm inviting search and rescue to use the information printed there, why should a judge be involved? For the same reason you still need to enter a sudo password when you use sudo for a trivial self-evident thing: It is not the trivial self evident thing we want to prevent, but the difference between a cop tracking the ex they are stalking and that missing person is literally just their no own judgement. Trusting cops not to abuse a certain power is bad when you can just implement a little systemic friction that prevents large scale abuse.