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All the"tHeY'rE gRaBbINg raNdOm pEoPle" leftists are outing themselves as kiddies spitting in the shallow end of the "Feds are bad" pool, because anyone with an iota of a clue know exactly how the Feds can ID masked rioters and track them down. A thread:
For starters, masks are not foolproof foils for facial recognition. They certainly make the job harder, but it's far from impossible. It mostly matters at-scale; if the Feds are trying to ID a few suspects caught on video they can hand-tune their algorithms.
Then there's "persistent stare" technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
An array of cameras on a drone or aerosat that can record many city blocks at a time, for *hours,* giving authorities God-like omniscience of the entire area that they can review at their leisure.
An array of cameras on a drone or aerosat that can record many city blocks at a time, for *hours,* giving authorities God-like omniscience of the entire area that they can review at their leisure.
How this works in practice? Masked suspect hurls firebomb, ducks into the crowd. Rewinding the footage, you can follow him backwards through time, till you see what vehicle he arrived at the protest in. Follow that back till you see it passing a bank. Score, you got him.
Descend on the bank with one of those neato super-fast FISA warrants and download their security camera footage. Bam, you got the license plate and, effectively, your perp's ID.
There's even a database company/software that specializes in security cams: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/06/12/2058212/many-police-departments-have-software-that-can-identify-people-in-crowds
There's even a database company/software that specializes in security cams: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/06/12/2058212/many-police-departments-have-software-that-can-identify-people-in-crowds
Failing that, you can use the license plate scanner database. Oh you didn't know about that? Cameras all over are auto-recognizing your license plate, and recording when and where it was seen. Many of them on government vehicles; it's been hooked to cop dash cams even.
The clever Feds who plan ahead park their *own* license-plate scanning cameras in likely trouble areas ahead of time. Did I mention those Portland riots have been going nonstop for 50 nights straight?
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/11/17/2010253/eff-muckrock-partner-to-see-how-local-police-are-trading-your-cars-location
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/05/19/1919249/repo-men-scan-billions-of-license-plates----for-the-government
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/05/12/231204/government-spy-truck-is-disguised-as-a-google-street-view-car
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/11/17/2010253/eff-muckrock-partner-to-see-how-local-police-are-trading-your-cars-location
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/05/19/1919249/repo-men-scan-billions-of-license-plates----for-the-government
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/05/12/231204/government-spy-truck-is-disguised-as-a-google-street-view-car
But how do you PID them on the street if you couldn't get a face match, or even track them down. No problem, whip out your Stingray device! A nasty little black box that mimics a cell phone tower so every cell phone in a certain area pings the box with its unique ID.
Warrants? Fucking please. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/28/2048220/doj-often-used-cell-tower-impersonating-devices-without-explicit-warrants
Cell carriers actually charge the government a FEE to divulge name/credit cards attached to the account attached to a particular cell phone's identifier code it pings with. They literally SELL you out: https://www.propublica.org/article/no-warrant-no-problem-how-the-government-can-still-get-your-digital-data
Cell carriers actually charge the government a FEE to divulge name/credit cards attached to the account attached to a particular cell phone's identifier code it pings with. They literally SELL you out: https://www.propublica.org/article/no-warrant-no-problem-how-the-government-can-still-get-your-digital-data
The government - not just the Feds, but even state and local - have merrily abused this tech; often flying planes so equipped over entire shopping malls to further build a catalog of Who was Where and When.
There's no information out there explicitly documenting this, but radio signals are radio signals - once they know what phone ID they're looking for you really think they can't point a directional antenna at some geek on the street and wait for the phone to ping again?
For that matter, bi/triangulation of that signal can easily narrow down the geographic area, esp. if drones or a polie chopper is involved using a directional antenna to constrain the listening area.
You really think the Feds don't have this shit? Bitch, please.
You really think the Feds don't have this shit? Bitch, please.
I haven't even touched on the big thing - how all this data is then fed to machine-learning algorithms that then build patterns out of it to find the proverbial needle in the haystack.
The leftists whinging about jackboots in the streets don't have a clue about any of this.
The leftists whinging about jackboots in the streets don't have a clue about any of this.
In sum, you can tell the lefties whining about "random abductions" are idiots because if they had ANY sincere fear of their own Federal government, they'd know damn well that it's far, FAR scarier if the Feds DO know exactly who they're arresting and where to find them.
This is why conservatives keep saying that Antifa et al are only getting away with their violence because they have tacit approval from powerful people within the system.
You didn't really think a t-shirt over the face was enough to make them immune, did you?
You didn't really think a t-shirt over the face was enough to make them immune, did you?
Additional points people are posting that I wanted to mention but omitted for brevity's sake: https://twitter.com/IncomingMAlL/status/1284635597693386754
This gentlemen has a point; as someone else has already mentioned, the incident of the firebomber who was tracked down with her Etsy shirt illustrates how old fashioned detective work gets the job done quite often, even with modern tools available. https://twitter.com/jnthnmrs/status/1284638068335685632
