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Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 3 days ago by CubitOom@infosec.pub to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

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The only passenger in the car when an American citizen was shot and killed by a federal officer in South Texas last year had planned to speak up and contradict the government’s account of the shooting. However, the passenger, Joshua Orta, died in an unrelated car crash over the weekend.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just for you, here's an Australian source, too.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/wikileaks-vault-7-dump-reignites-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-death-of-michael-hastings/news-story/0df1d06403d0223ce1cfc286a1e75325

[–] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks I want to dig into some more of that. As a quick aside though, let's recall this other spyware/hacking tools the government developed mentioned at the end of the article all got stolen and published online on shadowbrokers not long after, at least the NSA ones idk how much crossover they had with cia developed ones.

All the ransomware attacks are all nsa tools repurposed from that leak. Separately the Israeli Pegasus and it's ilk, zero click infection of phones and computers that give them total visibility, is thought to be derived from the FLAME virus the US used to infect Iranian centrifuges in the 00's or whenever that was.

Our tax dollars is what is making us vulnerable. In this and other ways we learned from the snowden leaks.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

Our tax dollars is what is making us vulnerable.

Abso-lutely. Western governments like USA and the UK learned the wrong lessons from the end of World War II and have practiced security through obscurity for decades since cracking the enigma machines codes and keeping that a secret during and long after the war. They sit on vulnerable exploits under the false notion that they'll be the only ones to ever find the exploits and use them. Instead of taking security seriously by reporting exploits when found, they use them in stupid fucking hacking wargames that make the whole world more vulnerable. Security through obscurity always works right up until it doesn't.