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Re:Student Who Found Security Flaws in Police Protocol Gets ... by icebraining on Sunday May 22, 2016 @07:44AM (#11748220)
playing cop

Is there any evidence of this? Simply owning a fake badge doesn't even prove intent, let alone being actual evidence that it happened.

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Re:Student Who Found Security Flaws in Police Protocol Gets ... by TheCartographer on Sunday May 22, 2016 @09:45AM (#11748542)
Simply owning a fake badge doesn't even prove intent, let alone being actual evidence that it happened

Well, not in the US. Many other countries take a dim view towards citizens owning anything that even remotely resembles the accruements of official power and authority.

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Re:Student Who Found Security Flaws in Police Protocol Gets ... by icebraining on Sunday May 22, 2016 @11:35AM (#11748937)
He may have broken the law by possessing it, but that's not the same as "playing cop". What he actually did doesn't change according to the jurisdiction, only its legal status.
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