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• On the post: How The FBI's Dysfunctional Search Systems Keep Information Out Of FOIA Requesters' Hands

  

  Wickedsmack ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2015 @ 07:10am

  Re: In other words

  So who polices the DOJ?

• On the post: How The FBI's Dysfunctional Search Systems Keep Information Out Of FOIA Requesters' Hands

  

  Wickedsmack ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2015 @ 07:10am

  Re: In other words

  So who polices the DOJ?

• On the post: How The FBI's Dysfunctional Search Systems Keep Information Out Of FOIA Requesters' Hands

  

  Wickedsmack ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2015 @ 06:55am

  Perhaps I am...uneducated

  I need the wisdom of the posters of the site to help me with a question I have been struggling with again and again. How are the people clearly doing things that they aren't supposed to do (like oh I don't know, not answering FIOA requests), sue to copyright PUBLIC INFORMATION (Mayors that don't want to get caught doing things that are shady) and Politicians never really given any sort of punishment? There seems to be a recurring theme of FU, I'm the government I can do what I want. Aren't they accoutable for their actions? I don't mean to sound like a naive idiot, but damn, if I decided to do what I want like that I would be unemployed, single, and have to have supervised visits with my kids. Somebody please explain this to me.

• On the post: Study: The TSA's Security Theater Troupes Missed 95% Of Smuggled Weapons And Explosives

  

  Wickedsmack ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2015 @ 10:20am

  Re: Re: What would be better?

  Makes me wonder what the hold up is, TSA's track record has been less than satisfactory. But people still need to fly places, so they do put up with a lot of nonsense to do that sometimes.

• On the post: Study: The TSA's Security Theater Troupes Missed 95% Of Smuggled Weapons And Explosives

  

  Wickedsmack ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2015 @ 10:10am

  What would be better?

  Is it possible to hire private security companies under contract to handle flight security? I would have to assume they can't be any worse than TSA at their job, and assuming they would like to keep a contract worth a goodly amount of money, wouldn't they tend to do a better job? Not being sarcastic, looking for more educated input than my own.

• On the post: Alert: North Korea Now Capable Of Using Photoshop To Launch Missiles From Submarines

  

  Wickedsmack ( profile ), 22 May, 2015 @ 11:19am

  Oh, North Korea....

  I have hard time taking them seriously anymore. They can't really project any power off their own pennisula. However, when gems like these propaganda pictures surface, you have to admit, NK has a great sense of humor when it comes to trying to act tough.

• On the post: FBI Director Claims That The World's Most Knowledgeable Cybersecurity Experts Are Not 'Fair Minded' About Encryption Backdoors

  

  Wickedsmack ( profile ), 22 May, 2015 @ 11:08am

  I am confused

  I am not by any stretch of the imagination an expert on anything of this nature, however would in not be counter intuitive put a back door into an encrypted anything? Doesn't that make ti more vunerable to attacks and perhaps somebody else finding the backdoor and letting themselves in to do whatever? I could just be incredibly ignorant on the situation, but its just seems like a bad idea.