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Video Appears To Show Baltimore Police Planting Drugs At A Crime Scene

Mafia with a bulletproof union. This shit aint new and it's been used to lock up innocent people for false drug charges for decades.

Fuck these criminals.
 

Micael

Member
You may not be able to store this with conventional cloud providers standard storage options given the potential sensitive nature of some of it. You might be able to get away with it if you use some kind of NSA certified encryption on it first, but encryption/decryption of that much data with such an algorithm is going to require a pretty beefy conputer setup.

Its a common mistake to think that encryption actually takes significant resources, but it does not, you can even have your OS and all your things fully AES encrypted, and have it encrypt/decrypt stuff in real time with no real impact to performance, to the point you are limited by the speed of your SSD far before you are limited by the speed of encryption, obviously you aren't going to be doing this scale with a single desktop computer.

To get an idea this http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph5553/44355.png is the speed of 2 processors from 2012, those 2 processors alone would allow you to encrypt a day worth of data in around 10 hours, and you are going to be using more modern processors, and far more of them for this scale, even if we assume a worst case scenario where all we know about encryption decryption speeds are wrong, and they are a few times slower, you could still just throw a few GPUs at the problem and have it fixed.
 
In a surveiled state, who polices those that control the surveillance infrastructure? We keep seeing DNA evidence ignored or tampered with, surveillance footage being selectively used and/or ignored, etc. People only want justice when it is convenient. People want laws and rules that apply to others, not themselves. The honor system doesn't work.

Government, federal to local, keeps arguing that more and more surveillance is required to keep people safe from the bombastic dangerous out there. In response, a few groups of people, who understand what this erosion of rights and privacy means, always speak up and get slapped down by people who are afraid, have "nothing to hide", or simpley have an authoritarian streak in them.

Rather than trying to stick our fingers in the dam and hold back the water, why not do the opposite? Perhaps we should open the floodgates and advocate for a completely transparent society.

Put cameras in every public space -- except public restrooms. We can use computer vision and narrow AI to police public restroooms. We can use the same devices inside private homes. Those feeds are only publicly reviewable in cases of a crime.

Save public space data for at least one year. Put cameras on all public officials. Record everything 24/7. Public officials wear the cameras 24/7. During work hours the feeds are publicly available and reviewable by anyone. While off the clock the cameras are still recording, but the data only becomes reviewable by a non partisan third party review board in cases of a wrongdoing. Create a national database so that anyone can search for a feed and view it at any time. When someone is arrested, independent reviews of all relevant feeds are made publicly available and reviewed.

Provide advanced tools. One cool idea would be the ability to supply faces for facial recognition and tracking of movements. License plate tracking is another. Tons of opportunities to make a surveiled state where everyone has an equal lack of privacy.
 
It's disturbing how every single time measures are put in place to protect the public they manage to weaponize them and use them to further aid in their war on the public. How many cases are there where they did manage to convict, using planted drugs, because they had a non retarded officer operating the bodycam.

The way he picks up like three random things to act like he's searching a yard legitimately strewn with random debris would be hilarious if it wasn't so evil.
 
Its a common mistake to think that encryption actually takes significant resources, but it does not, you can even have your OS and all your things fully AES encrypted, and have it encrypt/decrypt stuff in real time with no real impact to performance, to the point you are limited by the speed of your SSD far before you are limited by the speed of encryption, obviously you aren't going to be doing this scale with a single desktop computer.

To get an idea this http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph5553/44355.png is the speed of 2 processors from 2012, those 2 processors alone would allow you to encrypt a day worth of data in around 10 hours, and you are going to be using more modern processors, and far more of them for this scale, even if we assume a worst case scenario where all we know about encryption decryption speeds are wrong, and they are a few times slower, you could still just throw a few GPUs at the problem and have it fixed.

Proper decryption has to take reasonable time or its subject to guess and check attacks. Too quick of a decryption means you're not doing it properly. You have to assume that for data like this your adversary has appropriate computing power too and adjust your algorithms parameters appropriately for that.
 

TheContact

Member
The Baltimore police are one of the worst police organizations in the country. Many of them are incredibly racist and downright criminal. Hope these guys get locked up and fired
 
Proper decryption has to take reasonable time or its subject to guess and check attacks. Too quick of a decryption means you're not doing it properly. You have to assume that for data like this your adversary has appropriate computing power too and adjust your algorithms parameters appropriately for that.

This is completely wrong.

Resources required to brute force symmetric keys increase exponentially as you increase the key space not linearly. Symmetric algorithms can be as fast as you can make them as long as you have a large enough key space and your algorithm isn't flawed.

Probably you are confusing this with some of the "workarounds" used to mitigate small key space or poor entropy -- like human generated passwords as keys or inputs into cryptographic hash functions.
 

Micael

Member
Proper decryption has to take reasonable time or its subject to guess and check attacks. Too quick of a decryption means you're not doing it properly. You have to assume that for data like this your adversary has appropriate computing power too and adjust your algorithms parameters appropriately for that.

Not really, if you enforce good passwords, you would still not get anywhere near close to cracking it ever.
More importantly though there is a difference between being slow to someone trying to brute force something, and being slow to a normal user.
Someone that is trying to brute force the right combination will have to go through billions of combinations a second, so ofc each fraction of a millisecond that the hashing algorithm adds to it is going to make an absolutely massive difference, because that is a fraction of a millisecond for each combination attempt.
For a legit user however that would be merely a fraction of a millisecond per chunk of data they are trying to access.

Also should be said encryption of a password is different than encryption of an entire file system, you could very easily just encrypt the password and a file that said how the file is organized in the disk, as long as the software the uploads the file didn't upload the file all in 1 piece, but instead separated and "added trash" in several places, even if someone ever got access to the raw data, they would never be able to put it together without cracking the password, at which point you might as well fill a file with a bunch of 1s and 0s which would be about just as useful.

Anyway the specifics aren't really important, because you can just look up say truecrypt and encryption speed to see real results of how long it takes to encrypt something using software that is independently verified (truecrypt) and is encrypting using AES, which is NSA approved.
BTW would just like to point out that encrypting the files on the server is an option that amazon offers, and I would bet a ton of other storage providers do too.
 

TalonJH

Member
The sad part is there is no way to know how many people have gone to jail for planted evidence. It's nice to finally have video of it happening for people that never beloved it.
 
The sad part is there is no way to know how many people have gone to jail for planted evidence. It's nice to finally have video of it happening for people that never beloved it.

Could they potentially trace every arrest made by this officer and appeal any charges made?
 

GK86

Homeland Security Fail
They are reviewing 100 cases involving this cop.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/us/baltimore-body-camera-footage-review/index.html

About 100 cases involving at least one of three Baltimore police officers are under review by the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office. The review comes after the discovery of body camera footage that allegedly shows one of the cops in the trio planting evidence at the scene of a January drug arrest, according to Baltimore city officials.
 

Anticol

Banned
How can people in America feel secure when these are the people who are there to protect them, and if they do something wrong the don't get fired they just go to another city and keep doing shit. It is ridiculous.
 

Sony

Nintendo
This make me think of this documentary I saw once, it is called Training Day. It's pretty good.
 
How can people in America feel secure when these are the people who are there to protect them, and if they do something wrong the don't get fired they just go to another city and keep doing shit. It is ridiculous.
They aren't meant to keep the populace safe, it's been shown for quite a while now. You don't give them impunity to kill and commit crimes if they are supposed to keep the citizens safe.
Did you think people were making this up for decades, or what?
You already know why the poster didn't believe it.
 
What I don't get is how you see people being treated like this by cops, prosecutors, the entire criminal (in)justice system...

...then expect them to feel like proud Americans...

...and get offended when they don't.
 

theWB27

Member
What I don't get is how you see people being treated like this by cops, prosecutors, the entire criminal (in)justice system...

...then expect them to feel like proud Americans...

...and get offended when they don't.

They love that tactic of treating everything as an individual occurrence. If you do that... one can never claim there is an actual problem in their eyes.
 

BlueTsunami

there is joy in sucking dick
Sounds like narcotics units can be just as dirty as the media makes them out to be. My dad has a friend who was formerly part of a gang unit and I've heard things.
 
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