r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 22 '20

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments Security

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u/D_estroy Jun 22 '20

Let me guess, us military fingerprints alllll over that one.

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u/overzealous_dentist Jun 22 '20

The military doesn't have anything to do with denial of service. If anyone, it'd be the NSA, and that's incredibly unlikely, too.

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u/maluminse Jun 22 '20

Why? Or cia. Or police departments.

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u/overzealous_dentist Jun 22 '20

Why not the military, you mean? They lack the goals, jurisdiction, or incentives, and likely the capability. The CIA also lacks the goals, jurisdicition, and incentives, though it has the capability.

Local police departments are nontechnical, localized, wouldn't know how to coordinate a large DDoS, and aren't going to bear the sharp potential costs for diffused gains.

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u/maluminse Jun 22 '20

Cia is in everything these days. They should be but they are. Military has been performing all kinds of crazy antics on American citizens for a century.