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FYI - It's rising to the top rn because it is also being flooded with false reporting as an adversary tactic.
by ramoz 1y ago
FYI - It's rising to the top rn because it is also being flooded with false reporting as an adversary tactic.
- kennywinker 1y agoA small number of people could easily flood a system like this with bad reports. Every good faith user has to wait for an actual sighting - bad faith users don’t.
- davidw 1y agoSame could work for ICE reports if you could figure out a way to submit them without being traceable... Hrm.
- aerostable_slug 1y agoAlso, good faith users are very often wrong. In my immediate area, ICE has been "spotted" numerous times and that news relayed on social media. Unfortunately, ICE hasn't actually engaged in any removal operations in this county. All of the sightings have been other agencies. The spotters are batting 0.0, and that's without any bad faith actors purposely spoofing reports.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoUnfortunately?
- aerostable_slug 1y agoUnfortunate for the spotters: they've been wrong about who they're seeing in the field. In this area, all of the Feds that have been seen have been DEA and HSI after suspects who are US citizens, not ICE enforcing immigration law. The spotters are historically not good at distinguishing Feds from each other, which makes the utility of this app a little questionable (unless you're just trying to avoid all police). My guess, and it's just a guess, is that the ordered scale-back on ICE agricultural worker immigration enforcement took place before they got to this county. That said, I don't know why they haven't been here, just that they haven't.
- amazingman 1y agoSounds a lot like a problem the current administration created. Blowback is a real phenomenon. Americans are having trouble distinguishing which teams of masked men with guns roaming our streets and courthouses are "the good guys".
- JKCalhoun 1y agoSo ICE is ... everywhere?
- atemerev 1y agoAh, the good old Sybil attack problem. Usually resolved by reputation systems and auto-ban algorithms.