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Re:Feds Walk into a Building and Demand Everyone's Fingerpri... by lisper on Monday October 17, 2016 @02:09AM (#12722972)
> But I am not blaming the system.

You wrote:

> The 'actual problem' seems to be in the selection/delegation process.

That sounds like blaming the system to me.

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Re:Feds Walk into a Building and Demand Everyone's Fingerpri... by eternalban on Monday October 17, 2016 @02:57AM (#12723121)
Problem "in", not problem "is".

(In case you're interested, Pierre Sallinger touches on the post '72 role of the media in the selection process in his 1995 c-span interview: https://www.c-span.org/video/?67372-1/ps-memoir [edit: jump to 44:56])

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Re:Feds Walk into a Building and Demand Everyone's Fingerpri... by lisper on Monday October 17, 2016 @03:46AM (#12723287)
That seems like splitting a pretty fine hair to me.
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Re:Feds Walk into a Building and Demand Everyone's Fingerpri... by ChoHag on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:34AM (#12724123)
As a system administrator: No. It's not. A broken system and a system being misused are two entirely different things. It could be suggested that a system is broken if it can be misused and indeed an ideal system will be incapable of misuse. But I've never met one yet.
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