I would suggest *strongly supporting* making local law enforcement turn over 100% of any forfeiture taken to the federal government, ringfenced for border patrol improvements.
I virtually guarantee that if they didn't get to keep any of the cash they seized, their interest in actually spending time seizing assets, selling them and doing the paperwork would plummet....
as to how many of those "paper copies" rely on the voting machine being honest too. Far too many seem to print an "audit log" to a secure output bin, sight unseen. Not only does that risk a printer failure making the log worthless, but also what goes into the log is under the full control of the evoting machine - which of course is going to ensure the printed log is consistent with the electronic one.
the "release to one, release to all" policy then plays to their "mosaic" theory - that once you have a certain amount of redacted data, you can't have related data because it *might* allow you to deduce the redacted bits...
Probably the actual problem there - they don't know anyone else, and if you add in the usual management "you don't need to understand something to manage it" attitude you end up with an advisory board full of chiefs, who will probably direct that an external company (that they have a financial interest in, naturally) be directed to generate a report, which they will then pass on....
That if all seized funds went into the central government pot (rather than the seizing agency or state getting to keep them) it suddenly wouldn't seem such an effective measure against crime?
Why not (if you are the police) commercialize this process? have someone hire a car for a day, then immediately turn it over the police, who can change the hire companies 2K a pop to get their cars back?
Shouldn't matter - after all, the FBI are claiming this is "just about this one phone" and they aren't really in a position to prosecute it's owner.
More generally though - they could take a forensic copy of both the flash and the onboard storage, and use that to prove a chain of evidence (in that the storage is not altered, and the intel came from that storage)
Earliest appearance will have been in the pulp comics - so presumably (unless it gets forever extended as a side effect of Mikey Mouse) it will expire or have expired?
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I would suggest *strongly supporting* making local law enforcement turn over 100% of any forfeiture taken to the federal government, ringfenced for border patrol improvements.
I virtually guarantee that if they didn't get to keep any of the cash they seized, their interest in actually spending time seizing assets, selling them and doing the paperwork would plummet....
Be curious...
as to how many of those "paper copies" rely on the voting machine being honest too. Far too many seem to print an "audit log" to a secure output bin, sight unseen. Not only does that risk a printer failure making the log worthless, but also what goes into the log is under the full control of the evoting machine - which of course is going to ensure the printed log is consistent with the electronic one.
Plus....
the "release to one, release to all" policy then plays to their "mosaic" theory - that once you have a certain amount of redacted data, you can't have related data because it *might* allow you to deduce the redacted bits...
Re: politicians
Probably the actual problem there - they don't know anyone else, and if you add in the usual management "you don't need to understand something to manage it" attitude you end up with an advisory board full of chiefs, who will probably direct that an external company (that they have a financial interest in, naturally) be directed to generate a report, which they will then pass on....
Willing to bet....
That if all seized funds went into the central government pot (rather than the seizing agency or state getting to keep them) it suddenly wouldn't seem such an effective measure against crime?
Better yet...
Why not (if you are the police) commercialize this process? have someone hire a car for a day, then immediately turn it over the police, who can change the hire companies 2K a pop to get their cars back?
Re: Legal question here
Shouldn't matter - after all, the FBI are claiming this is "just about this one phone" and they aren't really in a position to prosecute it's owner.
More generally though - they could take a forensic copy of both the flash and the onboard storage, and use that to prove a chain of evidence (in that the storage is not altered, and the intel came from that storage)
So... when does it expire?
Earliest appearance will have been in the pulp comics - so presumably (unless it gets forever extended as a side effect of Mikey Mouse) it will expire or have expired?