Sinaloa Cartel Used Phone Data and Surveillance Cameras To Find and Kill FBI Informants in 2018, DOJ Says (aol.com) 20
Designated as a foreign terrorist group by multiple countries, Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel fiercely defends its transnational organized crime syndicate.
"A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records," reports Reuters, "and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday." The incident was disclosed in a Justice Department Inspector General's audit of the FBI's efforts to mitigate the effects of "ubiquitous technical surveillance," a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data... The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attaché's phone number "to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data."
The report said the hacker also "used Mexico City's camera system to follow the (FBI official) through the city and identify people the (official) met with." The report said "the cartel used that information to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses."
"A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records," reports Reuters, "and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday." The incident was disclosed in a Justice Department Inspector General's audit of the FBI's efforts to mitigate the effects of "ubiquitous technical surveillance," a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data... The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attaché's phone number "to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data."
The report said the hacker also "used Mexico City's camera system to follow the (FBI official) through the city and identify people the (official) met with." The report said "the cartel used that information to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses."
This is why surveillance culture is bad. (Score:2)
Whatever the government does, good or bad intention-wise, bad actors will always have incentive to use themselves.
That's why you don't want government backdoors in things.
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Whatever the government does, good or bad intention-wise, bad actors will always have incentive to use themselves.
That's why you don't want government backdoors in things.
Mike Pompeo would now agree with you. On the positive side of things, Marco Rubio will be killed in 2029.
I guess the FBI had something to hide (Score:1)
What're you afraid of, if you have nothing to hide?
We could stop this tomorrow (Score:2)
Legalize all drugs. Treat the hard stuff as a medical condition and don't allow private corporations to sell them for profit. Have the government give away hard drugs
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Bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
That's what you get when you decriminalize drugs. And guess who keeps making money? Cartels.
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Watching propaganda will do that to your brain.
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As opposed to San Francisco where nobody takes anything stronger than an aspirin ever?
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Have you ever seen someone on meth? PCP? Consuming those drugs instantly makes a person a danger to society.
Do we need a major reform when it comes to drug legislation and enforcement? Absolutely. But that's much different from "legalize all drugs." Each substance needs to be judged separately and treated as such.
For marijuana, in many places legalization has meant that you can prop up a store and sell it. That appears to be working out okay. Should we allow stores to sell LSD over the counter? Probably not
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Have you ever seen someone on meth? PCP? Consuming those drugs instantly makes a person a danger to society.
How many alcohol related deaths do we have every year? Everything from drunks plowing into a family in the oncoming lane to people drinking themselves to death. How many fights and acts of violence are started because of alcohol? Think of all the lives we could save without alcohol.
Live by the sword ... (Score:2)
What (Score:2)
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It's always Biden's fault.
Not really. He wasn't really running things. :-)
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good news, the panopticon was always too juicy for any to pass up
hope you've got enough hate to go around
It was seven years ago (Score:2)
Seven months ago and this would be a worrisome story.
Remind me (Score:3)