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Character assassination is bad enough, but to do it for absolutely no reason at all? [..] you're an outrage tourist. Uhhh. Was that just to bury the very valid
by PavlovsCat 13y ago
Character assassination is bad enough, but to do it for absolutely no reason at all? [..] you're an outrage tourist.
Uhhh. Was that just to bury the very valid and very simple question at the end of the post, or for no reason at all?
- tptacek 13y agoWhat valid and simple question? Which of the premises of that question are reliable at this point? For instance, what does "JTTF agent" even mean?
- PavlovsCat 13y agoWhat does this stock firecracker photo posted on July 4th have to do with [..] agents searching this couple's house and asking them specific questions about whether they owned a pressure cooker? It is reliable that some people searched the house and asked that, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTTF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTTF "JTTF agents" in this case would be FBI agents part of a JTTF I guess. As a tip, if someone uses bigger words than necessary, simply replace them mentally and see if there's still something there.
- tptacek 13y ago51% of Wikipedians might believe they know who knocked on these people's door, but we happen to know in this case that it was the Suffolk County PD.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoand now we even know why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6144198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6144198 The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.” So it wasn't Google, but it was because of searching for pressure cookers; it wasn't posting images of firecrackers on facebook, but it was a tip-off based on (private) surveillance.