Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a security breach

Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by embik on Saturday July 04, 2015 @03:30PM (#9831322)

What kind of people orders such a raid? What's the mindset behind that decision? Their own team wasn't good enough to catch the breach (hell, the whole thing sounds like a train wreck) and now they try to silence people who reveal their incompetence?

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by Semiapies on Saturday July 04, 2015 @06:09PM (#9831758)

If we're that charitable towards their motivations, I'd generally expect the sort of people who end up in large city administrations to do that more than not.

Another possibility is that they had arranged a good setup for vote manipulation, and someone exposed it.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by jamra on Saturday July 04, 2015 @03:48PM (#9831379)

The same administration that just assassinated a prosecutor that had written out an arrest warrant against her.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by demian on Saturday July 04, 2015 @04:10PM (#9831445)

Wrong.

The federal goverment is from a different political party, they are NOT the same people that are running the local city goverment. The police that raided this guy's house was the metropolitan police (BA city police), not the federal police.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by hobarrera on Saturday July 04, 2015 @09:38PM (#9832212)

Important correction: the "metropolitan police" is not the city police. Legally speaking, it's more of a private army that only answer to the executive branch of the city's government. Yes, it's incredibly amazing that such a thing exists.

"Police" it just a word in the name of the institution.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by demian on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @11:13AM (#9891686)

Thanks for the correction, I didn't knew.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by dancingcat on Sunday July 05, 2015 @03:44AM (#9832853)

I, and many others have proven in public/open court, that the police/military are completely compromised around the world, and that they are not allowed to act-as or call themselves the police or military anymore.

It was scrubbed... Again, and again, and again...

:-(

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by nmrm2 on Saturday July 04, 2015 @04:12PM (#9831454)

There are a lot of examples in the US of the government harrasing citizens who report vulnerabilities. The DMCA is typically used to justify this behavior.

I'm not sure what the appropriate conclusion is here.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by marcosdumay on Saturday July 04, 2015 @04:12PM (#9831452)

Just to add, an arrest warrant against her for aiding Iran terrorists that attacked Argentina.

If embik thinks he does not know what those people think, I guess he should turn that into a certainty from now on.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by MichaelCrawford on Saturday July 04, 2015 @08:26PM (#9832054)

You must not know much about history.

In Argentina specifically, there was Juan Peron. The broadway play and movie "Evita" is about his wife. I once read her biography.

Some astronomers I once met were at cerro tololo inter-american observatory in chile when some heavily armed men turned up to look after the nearby radio towers.

Conspiracy theories abound with respect to JFK's assassination.

No one really believes that communists torched the Reichstag.

On December 8, 1941, the pearl harbor base commander found a letter from the US state department in his mailbox, to let him know that the japanese might give him trouble sometime soon.

"Gentlemen do not read each others' mail.". That was the stated reason that the US stopped its codebreaking work. I dont believe it really did. The best way to read a gentleman's mail is if he doesnt think he needs to encrypt it.

Josef Stalin once knocked over a bank, then gave all the loot to Lenin.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by maxpupmax on Sunday July 05, 2015 @12:52AM (#9832508)

With all due respect... What the hell are you talking about?

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by mattdeboard on Sunday July 05, 2015 @02:40AM (#9832738)

One of my great fears is that posts like the one you responded to turn out, years later, to be 100% legitimate, despite how weird they sound now.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by MichaelCrawford on Sunday July 05, 2015 @04:33AM (#9832940)

Every starving writer just loves to hear about it when a fan appreciates his work.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by polymatter on Sunday July 05, 2015 @04:32AM (#9832936)

I think his ultimate point was that embik is being naive. That it is just a simple coverup with a thin, obviously untrue excuse.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by MichaelCrawford on Sunday July 05, 2015 @04:32AM (#9832938)

Have a read of the parent post that mine is a reply to.

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Re:Argentinean programmer's house raided after he found a se... by threeseed on Saturday July 04, 2015 @10:28PM (#9832308)

Why wouldn't you order a raid ? A security vulnerability in a voting system has been exposed.

Yes this guy may have done nothing with it but I would damn want to make 100% sure that was the case. And I would definitely want to make sure that the vulnerability wasn't recklessly revealed. This isn't like finding a browser bug we are talking about, you can radically alter the course of a nation.

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