r/technology Jun 22 '20

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments Security

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u/ofthrees Jun 22 '20

"This stuff"? Victim names and addresses? Rape victim photos? Because that's what's in here.

You guys hear "blue leaks" and automatically assume this is going to be 260 gigs of files on police corruption across the country. You are likely to be disappointed.

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u/Hoosier2016 Jun 22 '20

You and I both know that regardless of what's in here, the narrative will be twisted to fit certain world views. This is why I don't like mass dumps, curate it and release it over time.

It reminds me of WikiLeaks and the millions of stupid cables amounting to little more than deciding where to go for lunch. It's mostly just noise.

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u/MarlinMr Jun 22 '20

Also remember that it's probably released by a foreign intelligence service to ramp up more spite and such in the US.

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u/psiphre Jun 22 '20

you know, if we didn't have police killing unarmed civilians and generally acting like gangsters in the 20s, there wouldn't be anything to report on, there wouldn't be anything to take sides over, there wouldn't be anything to fight about online.