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Re:A Message to Our Customers by hn9780470248775 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:15PM (#11121463)
> at least one having MD License Plates

Don't vehicles used by federal agencies typically bear U.S. Government license plates?

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Re:A Message to Our Customers by berkeleynerd on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:20PM (#11121497)
According to @HillRat in the other thread : "Based on open sources, NSA has a fleet of about 100 vehicles at most in CONUS, so they would be more likely to fly vehicles cross-country if DIRNSA needed to use a fleet vehicle. Having said that, NSA doesn't just arbitrarily get involved in domestic law enforcement cases, even ones involving crypto, so let's wait to see if there's more evidence than a random HN post to support this allegation." Good information and an entirely fair statement. I'm hoping someone from Apple can chime in directly.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers by officemonkey on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:53PM (#11122566)
The majority of federal government travel is done with commercially available rental cars.

The likelihood of the federal government driving a GSA-plate vehicle from Maryland to California to meet with Apple is about zero.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers by ethbro on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:15PM (#11123444)
Commercially available rental vehicles seem an extraordinarily bad idea for the NSA to drive to and from sensitive meetings in.

What? They just drive silently to and from the meeting or listen to the radio?

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