Copzilla$
Mmm... Donuts
join:2000-10-10
Friendswood, TX
| reply to Karl Bode
Re: Network Associates never said that
People do this stuff all the time, Leviathan, not just AV companies.
Women accuse cheating husbands of beating them, children falsely report abuse, feuding neighbors calling in noise disturbances, drug dealers ratting another dealer off to get his turf, the list goes on and on.
I don't think one instance of a reporter being paid a visit by a bored government agent who asked him to hold a story in light of the 9/11 events as being an indication that AV companies have the government in their back pocket.
I think it's probably an indicator of an AV company exec calling the feds screaming about "RISK TO NATIONAL SECURITY, GET OVER THERE NOW AND STOP THIS ANIMAL!!!", and the agent's boss has been instructed to investigate everything that pops up, leave no stone uncovered, so he sends agent Joe Blow, who has had ZERO rest in the previous couple of weeks, and is working 20 hour days, and pops in when he figures he'll find this person at home for certain, and just asks if he'll throw him a bone so he can move on to something else. The reporter agrees, and the non-story is still a non-story.
But paranoia makes it a story, eh? * whisper * whisper* government agents * whisper * whisper * collusion * whisper * whisper * secrets * whisper *
The fellow who responded to the first article by saying *** sorry, I'm going to edit this out because it's not very nice - and I shouldn't have quoted it ***
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | quote:
People do this stuff all the time, Leviathan, not just AV companies.
And they're wrong too.
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Copzilla$
Mmm... Donuts
join:2000-10-10
Friendswood, TX
| said by Leviathan:
And they're wrong too.
Oh, no doubt... Using misleading reports to government agencies in order to harass? Sure, it's dead wrong.
That doesn't mean the agency is a willing participant, though, and not necessarily an indicator of collusion. The agency has to strike a balance between duty to investigate and the right of the public to their peace and quiet.
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pkust
join:2001-08-09
Houston, TX
| said by Copzilla:
That doesn't mean the agency is a willing participant, though, and not necessarily an indicator of collusion. The agency has to strike a balance between duty to investigate and the right of the public to their peace and quiet.
Since when is rousting a private citizen at 3:00AM to "ask" him not to exercise his First Amendment rights a valid investigative technique?
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Peter Nayland Kust
pkust@tekmedia.com
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Copzilla$
Mmm... Donuts
join:2000-10-10
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Why don't you ask the person who paid the visit? |
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