It’s not laziness, it’s hyper focus on compliance. CJIS is the policy maintained by the FBI that handles information security, which is derived from standards built around paper.

Adding more weirdness, the details get worked out by each state.

My guess is they encrypted whatever is criminal justice information (license plate hotlists, etc) or protected by local laws (DMV data) and left the rest to make it easier to deploy and service. Remember pictures of you or your car taken in public are not protected or in scope.

Police tech is garbage and usually driven by federal grant spending. So it’s going to be interesting to see how Flock and Axon grow the business as it turns into a service model.

They really got their shit together from like 2005-2017 or so. Then all garbage.

It’s so bad, the windows engineers in my company are on MacBooks and work in jump boxes.

The other companies are stealing people's work for headlines and sabotaging each other. Google is offering a whole bunch of Gemini APIs that do real shit, with the same terms and contracts and the existing products for most of them.

That’s the key.

These companies respond with this, “Oh my goodness, how could this have happened” bullshit.

The stuff happens because instead of having actual controls, which require actual engineering, actual thought and deliberate action, we have “guardrails”.

Guardrails are the equivalent of telling a toddler to behave themselves.

The drive to move fast and start up style controls are a menace. I used to work for an entity with a lot of compliance requirements. Startups are always a shit show with security and controls. My guess is the AI people are worse because they’re both bad at doing it, and are likely mining their customers interactions to build their own business.

Sensitive or Customer data shouldn’t be anywhere near these companies offerings. Everything needs to be segmented and proxied at a minimum.

This type of thing always strikes me. I remember as a kid thinking that it was weird in Star Wars that people are living in the desert with draft animals and primitive conditions, while there are literal interstellar spaceships.

But… at the end of the day tech is just tooling. Your crypto money laundering information could well be in a building that once housed a donkey with some sort of keeper checking the blinking lights.

There are exceptions usually for extraordinary events.

In New York there’s a concept of doing various things “in the furtherance of justice”. Judges have broad discretion to dismiss or reduce tickets.

Often it so happens that those reductions increase the city/towns share of the revenue.

In those cases, the judge may find that circumstances would make a traffic ticket unjust. But the standard of guilt is strict and clear cut.

I think reality is that “lowercase p” politics just lowered the heat on Bin Laden from an attention point of view.

They did a reorg, and Richard Clarke, who was the terrorism and Bin Laden “guy” was in effect demoted and lost access to the president.

The timing was bad for the US. Clinton was deeply personally engaged in this stuff. Bush was an arms length guy who delegated. Personally, I think Bin Laden and his cronies had a really good read or an instinct in this dynamic.

I’m having your post read out loud and am listening with my Apple Hifi.

She cosplayed Steve Jobs with the sweater, had obviously studied the west coast CEO bullshit trope stuff, and everything and used her earnest attractive nature to dupe a bunch of well known old men to endorse her.

Being female was a part of the grift but not the most notable. Many male grifters do the same thing without the girl power thing.

Being female is key for the sympathy play after the fact, and this little exercise to fish for a pardon from POTUS with a documentary. She went from Steve Jobs Girlboss to exploited victim, boo hoo.

Yeah, the Balwani stuff. Now I know there is nuance and some people will read this as victim shaming but...

"she was really just a innocent naive girl fighting her way up and through, revolutionizing tech and the medical industry, but being beat down, serially sexually harassed, if not assaulted, or abused by Balwani, the real evil in this story"...

Except she was the CEO. She might have had a romantic relationship with Balwani but she was his boss.

"Powerless to help herself and stop this from happening". To steal from our current occupant in the White House, "You're fired".

None of that was an issue until her trial.

They walked a fine line.

You can find complicity in the holocaust everywhere. The United States strictly enforced immigration quotas and turned away entire refugee ships. Legislation to address the issue and provide an exception failed in the house in 1939. Those people were returned to their deaths.

After the war, the genuine shock of what was discovered by the Army was presented to imply that nobody had any idea what was happening.

The Swiss also turned a blind eye to allied activity. The OSS and MI6 operated pretty blatantly and received some assistance from the Swiss authorities.

The Swiss cannot claim moral superiority by any means, but it’s unfair to brand them as nazi collaborators. These issues are black and white a hundred years later and thousands of miles away, not so much when you’re surrounded.