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And the damage control starts. Also, why are we reading tech crunch for actual news? as someone puts eloquently on the top comment: """ random_eddie2 1 minute
by gcb0 13y ago
And the damage control starts.
Also, why are we reading tech crunch for actual news? as someone puts eloquently on the top comment:
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random_eddie2 1 minute ago
"It turns out either Catalano or her husband were conducting these searches from a work computer."
That is speculation, unsupported by the PD's press release. The former employee was not identified in the press release, and we know of at least THREE people whose home the investigators went to: Catalano, her husband, and her twenty-year-old son.
If you're not going to do enough journalism (you know, picking up the phone and making calls to obtain verifiable facts) to establish something as basic as this, you should probably just not say anything at all.
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- jmduke 13y agoHow is that quote unsupported by the press release? The press release states: "The former employee's searches took place on this employee's workplace computer."
- droithomme 13y agoThe police police report says the employer (singular) noticed the searches (plural) made on a workplace computer and reported to the FBI. The context is a case where the wife searched for "pressure cooker", and the husband for "backpack" at the same time. Has it been established that both the husband and the wife worked for the same company? No need to respond, the police department is claiming this unnamed company that the wife or possibly the husband works for says that it was "the employee" who made both searches at the workplace on the company owned computer. > 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.”
- md224 13y agoThe wife's search was irrelevant, as the report states the search was for "pressure cooker bombs" not "pressure cooker". So we really have no idea who searched for that one.
- tptacek 13y agoDo I understand properly that you're still seeking an angle in which the USG or some agent of it got access to this family's Google searches?
- pkinsky 13y agoIt's not implausible that the employer's tip led to a full trawl of the family's stored online history. Which, with what I'm sure is a shockingly high false positive rate, found cause for suspicion.
- tptacek 13y agoWe also can't disprove that it was the Roswell aliens that secretly control the Trilateral Commission that were behind the whole story.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoThe only thing implausible here is that the FBI or other Federales would reveal intelligence sources and methods so carelessly. The fact remains that the gov't maintains systems that monitor and log online activity with automatic flagging/storage based on keywords. I do find it unlikely that peon-agents and JTTF types have routine access to that data, but I wouldn't have been surprised to learn that some info regarding a potential threat might have been passed down to peon-agents with a suggestion or task for them to follow up on.
- tptacek 13y agoI respect that you managed to restate a point I spent ~500 words making in just 70 words.