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Re:Hello, GitHub by sullyj3 on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:03PM (#17233429)
If I was an intelligence agency, I would do the trivially obvious thing and only use "unmarked cars" when I didn't care about being spotted, and an actual nondescript vehicle the rest of the time.
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Re:Hello, GitHub by gowld on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:32PM (#17233615)
What's the difference between an "unmarked car" and a "nondescript vehicle" ?

You think the CIA would do their clandestine work on cars labeled "CIA" ?

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Re:Hello, GitHub by dragonwriter on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:36PM (#17233649)
> What's the difference between an "unmarked car" and a "nondescript vehicle" ?

Unmarked police cars often have multiple radio antennae, flexible lights, and even government plates, they simply lack explicit police markings and light bars.

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Re:Hello, GitHub by bambataa on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:16AM (#17235571)
Surely an unmarked van owned by Apple would have none of that?
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Re:Hello, GitHub by jey on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:23AM (#17237853)
The point is that the "unmarked" vehicle sticks out as unusual even without having "Apple" or "Police" emblazoned on its side.
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