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Oh, don't worry. People still say that. (Mostly because this sort of story is quite rare. It should happen zero times, but plenty of people are very happy with

Oh, don't worry. People still say that. (Mostly because this sort of story is quite rare. It should happen zero times, but plenty of people are very happy with the status-quo tradeoff. I mean, we're talking about folks that the public trusts to carry lethal weapons openly, in spite of the damage they do with them; access to espionage tools are way down the security-and-safety-concern ladder from the Glock Gen 5s on the officers' hips).

superkuh 4y ago
A slight clarification: It's rare that it is caught and prosecuted. It's common enough within authority spies and enforcers that they have a word for it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
- r00fus 4y ago
  Grotesquely orwellian.
- shadowgovt 4y ago
  That still makes it rare, since the vast, vast bulk of the citizenry isn't married to / dating spies and enforcers. I'm not implying this should just be a "cost of doing business," but I am implying that most of the citizenry has implicitly accepted it as such, so we can't expect democracy to fix this issue.
  - superkuh 4y ago
    Common enough in groups of people regularly exposed to (unreliable but scary) polygraph tests and consequences for their actions. In local and state police who don't face oversight or consequences it is way, way, more common.
    - shadowgovt 4y ago
      What I mean is even if each of the US's 600,000 domestic law enforcement and law-enforcement-adjacent officers were grossly violating the privileges of their authority to surveil their spouses and SOs in a way that grossly violates their fifth amendment rights... That's a problem directly impacting 0.2% of the population. It's real, real hard to get the polity at the national level to care about a 0.2%-of-the-population issue. I don't think we can expect a democratic solution to this issue.
      - superkuh 4y ago
        This article we're talking about isn't even about spouses/SOs. It's about dozens of random people the cop attacked.
maerF0x0 4y ago
The unfortunate thing about backdoors is its hard to really know how many times it happened. Kind of like the unreported crime thing, but far more believable that a good portion is never detected, particularly for read-only access. I kinda doubt this guy would have got caught if he wasn't blackmailing the women.

superkuh 4y ago

A slight clarification: It's rare that it is caught and prosecuted. It's common enough within authority spies and enforcers that they have a word for it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT

r00fus 4y ago
Grotesquely orwellian.
shadowgovt 4y ago
That still makes it rare, since the vast, vast bulk of the citizenry isn't married to / dating spies and enforcers. I'm not implying this should just be a "cost of doing business," but I am implying that most of the citizenry has implicitly accepted it as such, so we can't expect democracy to fix this issue.
- superkuh 4y ago
  Common enough in groups of people regularly exposed to (unreliable but scary) polygraph tests and consequences for their actions. In local and state police who don't face oversight or consequences it is way, way, more common.
  - shadowgovt 4y ago
    What I mean is even if each of the US's 600,000 domestic law enforcement and law-enforcement-adjacent officers were grossly violating the privileges of their authority to surveil their spouses and SOs in a way that grossly violates their fifth amendment rights... That's a problem directly impacting 0.2% of the population. It's real, real hard to get the polity at the national level to care about a 0.2%-of-the-population issue. I don't think we can expect a democratic solution to this issue.
    - superkuh 4y ago
      This article we're talking about isn't even about spouses/SOs. It's about dozens of random people the cop attacked.

maerF0x0 4y ago

The unfortunate thing about backdoors is its hard to really know how many times it happened. Kind of like the unreported crime thing, but far more believable that a good portion is never detected, particularly for read-only access. I kinda doubt this guy would have got caught if he wasn't blackmailing the women.