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Plus (form the Guardian article) there are covert agents in all the companies, presumably lifting all the certs, which may well be unauthorised, but you can't p
by justincormack 13y ago
Plus (form the Guardian article) there are covert agents in all the companies, presumably lifting all the certs, which may well be unauthorised, but you can't prosecute.
Do you know who your covert agents are?
- ganeumann 13y agoWhy couldn't you prosecute, if you found out? I assume theft is still theft, even if done by a government employee.
- numbsafari 13y agoProsecuting would require contacting an authority that would be willing to take the case, and would also require going public with the fact that one of your "trusted" employees had invalidated your security systems, potentially opening you up to untold amounts of liability from customers who may believe their security has been compromised. Go ahead, call the cops and media. I hope you have a ton of money on hand and some jewelry stashed away in various locations before you do so.
- chris_mahan 13y agoPerhaps they could arrest you with the old "interfering with a government agent in the performance of his duties" bit.
- jonknee 13y agoGood luck with that. You would need the government to prosecute and the government makes it illegal to talk about what you want to prosecute.
- rst 13y agoWhy couldn't who prosecute? That's a function of the government; a prosecutor is not obliged to engage in a case (formally, get an indictment out of a grand jury) whenever they believe a crime to have been committed. Undercover agents at all levels of law enforcement commit apparently criminal acts every day, with no fear of prosecution. There's no reason for this to be any different.