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I'm mostly fascinated by their attempt to trick him to give up compromising information about his actions, by asking him for help on how to secure the system. I
by Luff 17y ago
I'm mostly fascinated by their attempt to trick him to give up compromising information about his actions, by asking him for help on how to secure the system. If they would've asked me before reading this, I would've probably been too naive to ask for assurance that what I said wouldn't be used against me.
- jrockway 17y agoYeah, the police are good at this. I was investigated by the Secret Service once. Long story involving a sarcastic non-anonymous slashdot comment that was misinterpreted as a threat on the President's life. (Yeah, America is a strange place.) Anyway, the agents came to my house, made a vague accusation, and asked me if I knew anything about this. Having watched a bit of Law & Order, my answer was, "I think I need to talk to my lawyer". They persisted, and provided me with a lot of false information. At this point, I was annoyed at how wrong they were and said "yeah, I wrote this" and pulled up the comment in question. (Resolution: they read the comment, realized that someone Higher Up totally overreacted, and went away.) Basically, detectives are trained to extract information, and they are good at doing so. (Worth noting that after they got the information they wanted, they were generally pleasant people. Real life can be very much like television. :)