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Re:Belgian Police Say They Decrypted Half a Billion ‘Sky’ Me... by dylan604 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:40PM (#26484167)
And yet, the police all claim that criminals are dumb, and wait for them to do something that gets them caught. That's one of the basic investigation tactics--wait for the criminal to screw up.
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Re:Belgian Police Say They Decrypted Half a Billion ‘Sky’ Me... by tomca32 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @07:29PM (#26484585)
Because all the ones they catch are dumb. There’s no information on how many are smart
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Re:Belgian Police Say They Decrypted Half a Billion ‘Sky’ Me... by spoonjim on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:10AM (#26487524)
It’s not an issue of smart vs. dumb. It’s that the cops can screw up infinitely without consequence (yesterday US cops shot a 1 year old baby in the head... nothing will happen to any of them) while the criminals have to be perfect and get busted on the first mistake. That asymmetry is why idiot cops who could barely graduate high school routinely bust even skilled criminals.
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Re:Belgian Police Say They Decrypted Half a Billion ‘Sky’ Me... by krageon on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:05AM (#26502228)
> the police all claim that [...]

Yes, because if this wasn't true they would look bad.

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