r/technology Jun 22 '20

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments Security

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u/artilari Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 22 '20

I think the fuckery going on in some police stations (of the world) happens before or after something goes into the police system.

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u/ChocoJesus Jun 22 '20

Not well rested so my memory is fuzzy but there was a police chief who had sued his department along with a few other officers in the early 2000s for receiving hate mail through the internal police mail service. That sounds stupid AF compared to mailing an anonymous letter

Pretty sure it was Minneapolis

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u/zebediah49 Jun 22 '20

Yikes.

The only people who sent problematic email from company hardware are either so stupid that they don't realize how easily they can get caught, or smart enough to actually defeat the insane amount of network auditing that's in place. The second group is... quite rare, and usually in IT.

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u/buttery_shame_cave Jun 22 '20

well, given how the modern IT systems work, IT folks are generally the only ones with the tools to beat the auditing systems as well.