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Following the news that cops are trying to [sweat down](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161227/12042636351/amazon-refuses-to-comply-with-police-request-amazon-echo-recordings-murder-case.shtml) an Amazon Echo in hopes of hearing murder-related conversations, it's time to revisit the eavesdropping that's gone ... OnStar service, but it hadn't been switched off. The 2001 case [didn't end well](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031119/1551224.shtml) for law enforcement. It wasn't that the court had an issue with the eavesdropping ... enforcement. While OnStar denies it collects location info, it too has a [stolen car recovery](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071009/022511.shtml) mode that allows OnStar to track vehicles. OnStar also says it will only do this in response

girlfriend's four year old daughter. To "win" at killing citizens, you must [start the spin](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150603/11024131209/every-kill-good-kill-how-police-media-cooperate-to-disparage-dead.shtml) immediately. Yanez spun his own, speaking to a lawyer [less than two hours](https://twitter.com/webster/status/877305381919354880) ... anything but business as usual. Should be. Isn't. This is the actual [standard operating procedure](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161017/06472835817/fbi-director-we-need-more-data-police-shootings-so-law-enforcement-can-change-narrative.shtml) after an officer kills someone: the department goes digging through its criminal records to find ... When it comes to police shootings in America, there are no aggressors in uniform, [only victims](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170508/11013437318/fbi-releases-study-law-enforcements-persecution-complex.shtml). Officer Yanez made his own excuses, [theorizing Castile's willingness to smoke pot](https://www.ramseycounty.us/sites/default/files/County%20Attorney/Yanez%20BCA%20Interview%20Transcript%207.7.16.pdf)

Court decisions stripping officers of immunity for civil liberties violations are still mostly an anomaly

Earlier this year, journalist Ashley Feinberg outed then-FBI Director James Comey's secret Twitter

A few years back, news broke about the apparent existence of stationary cell tower spoofers

masque wrote on November 20, 2020 at 9:01 PM (edited on November 20, 2020 at 9:08 PM)

Reply to comment by Hibiscus_Syrup in If we had forums that just auto-loaded RSS feeds as posts, which feeds do you think would suit raddle? by Hibiscus_Syrup

where the latter two have nothing to do with tech; [here's a random recent example](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201108/12400445670/utah-senator-tells-people-to-stay-home-if-they-dont-want-to-be-mauled-police-dogs.shtml)). I'm not exactly sure how to pin down the politics of the site runner Mike

GrimWillow wrote on November 5, 2017 at 9:22 AM

Reply to How are software companies currently fighting against free software? by elyersio

articles I found right now: * [Patent trolling open source computation of erasure codes](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141115/07113529155/patent-troll-kills-open-source-project-speeding-up-computation-erasure-codes.shtml) * [Microsoft's modern war with Linux](http://www.channelfutures.com/open-source/patents-and-peace-are-microsoft-linux-wars-over)

masque wrote on December 20, 2020 at 10:27 PM (edited on December 20, 2020 at 10:28 PM)

Reply to SolarWinds hack -- Blaming Russia or Blaming China are the Two Genders of Imperialism by celebratedrecluse

password on the SolarWinds update server was apparently [solarwinds123](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201215/13203045893/security-researcher-reveals-solarwinds-update-server-was-secured-with-password-solarwinds123.shtml), at least at some point. Not exactly the high barrier to entry you'd expect for hacking the "intelligence community