In fact it would be great if you could control all that information and provide it to apps and websites on a need-to-know basis. Provided its really under your control rather than handing it to the largest advertising company in the world who can thus prof with your data by choosing with whom and when to share it.

Unfortunately developers seem uninterested in the open, distributed protocols that exist to provide this same feature, so it will be adopted by the masses only when big platforms include them in their vertical stacks.

Then it is an unsolvable problem, and people will be harmed. It's a pity that there aer easily solvable problems for some that have no possible solution for others.

You know - I'm amazed at how many in here - a site supposedly of the computer savvy - think that if you are on the internet at all, you are pwned. Using good security (and no, Windows Defender and Firewall is obviously not good security) you can be pretty safe.

And before anyone chimes in on how no internet facing system is safe, it is true that if it can be written, it can be compromised. But that's not the point. The point is that about 70 percent of setups have piss-poor security. So the hackers go after the low hanging fruit. Why hack a strong system when there are three times as many just inviting pwnage?

This. The bad guys and gals go after the low hanging fruit. And there is so. damned. much. of. it.

I've long said that a company - especially one involved with essential infrastructure, should have a head of IT with C-Suite level authority. And the compliance chops to go with it.

And while small companies - water in this case - might not have the money to hire such a person, if they have to use software, it comes from somewhere. So "somewhere" needs to be responsible and in the loop. If that's too much a problem, expect more and nastier coordinate cyberattacks. Perhaps dumping the entire inventory of chlorination or flouridation chemicals in short order, or turning it off altogether, issuing false alerts, or suppressing them.

If no one was harmed by this event, perhaps those in charge should consider it a shot across the bow.

Which is why you never answer "yes" to anything a prosecutor asks you. It's always a trap. In this case, asking if this is your account and not asking if you sent those messages is the trap.

Hard disagree.

There are mistakes that can happen - getting a phone number wrong, knocking on the wrong street number, stuff like that, sure.

But all of those mistakes need to be found and fixed DURING the investigation. This is the duty of the police officiers.

Not finding any evidence and STILL going to trial - that's on the prosecution. But I doubt that there would have been a conviction if police had not omitted things or outright lied in court. I doubt any courd would hand down a guilty verdict if all the police involved said that they found no evidence of anything.

I'm not all that familiar with Canadian law, but her we have "discovery" pre-trial. So that user name diference would have stopped the trial in its tracks. As well, Police here usually have a consultant as well to advice on IT matters.

I agree that there is something very sketchy here, and that there should be some liability, because an incorrect user name is sheer incompetence on the defense, and just looking to convict someoneanyone on the prosecution.

He/she will mysteriously disappear, because people that can manipulate the masses this well are needed elsewhere

Yeah, turns out all humans can do things wrong. Liberal guvmints can and do wrongfully convict people.

Although this case seems pretty nasty wrong.

The prosecutors wanted him convicted, the police wanted him convicted, Parents wanted him convicted.

I'm not certain how it is in the great White North, but here Prosecutors are elected, and the metric is that they must convict.

The other metric is that they have metrics to perform a "fair trial" As long as the defendant is convicted and receives that "fair trial", they simply do not care if the defendant was actually guilty, because the next election cycle, they can point at their conviction rate, highlighting crimes that are more media worthy.

Nostradamus predicted this!

Late at night I sit

Scrying upon the night sky spectacle

Fireworks, we are all screwed

Burma Shave

You can call a piece of coal "off-white, tending towards darkish", or you can call it "black". Both are technically not incorrect. Only one of them is not intentionally misleading.

The whole shit is obviously intended to chill critique. If you are seriously offended by someone calling you an incompetent ass, then politics isn't for you, go get a real job.

And the police really have more important things to do than scaring pensioners who got a bit emotional online. (one of the most famous raids was in 2024 against a 64-year old guy who had called a minister "Schwachkopf" (english: dimwit).

Tell me you think that justifies sending the police to someone's home. Seriously, these people need to get a grip. You can call me dimwit all day and I wouldn't dream of sending the police after you.

What else would you call it when police arrives at your home at 6 am to search it because you posted something online? (like they would find a reddit posting in your sock drawer, I mean come on, seriously?)

During the ""Aktionstage gegen Hasspostings" (Action Days Against Hate Speech), around a hundred or so such raids are conducted on the same day, and a substantial portion of those is for insulting politicians.

Every story about a wrong conviction is a story about the death penalty

The details are clickbait, and the take questionable, but there is enough truth in it. From my perspective (I'm Germany, but I currently live elsewhere, but still follow German politics closely):

One, there is a considerable crisis in the German manufacturing industry. And the current government has pushed through (with questionable methods) and insane military spending bill while at the same time complaining everywhere else that there is no money and they need to cut this and that and everything else.

Two, there is a strong US influence in european politics, and especially in Germany. A long list of recent and current high-ranking German politicians has direct connections to US think tanks or corporations, and an even larger number found employ with these or US universities, etc. after they were voted out. One would have to be incredibly naive to think that they're hired for their competence or out of charity.