* Posts by Deekoo

3 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2008

Cracked emails again deployed against climate researchers

Deekoo
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PlacidCasual: if whoever is releasing these mails is using marketing techniques and emotional manipulation to push their 'message', that strikes me as a good sign that their message should be considered to be just as trustworthy as anyone else's marketing claims.

Speaking of messages, the attempt to claim that the 'green movement' is a religion is an oft-repeated message, but repetition does not make it true.

Judges plead guilty to jailing kids for kickbacks

Deekoo

The sentencing isn't the only problem.

Under the circumstances, the first thing that needs to be done (and far more importantly than getting the judges into jail - getting them off the bench will suffice) is to temporarily release everyone held in the facilities that paid the bribes or sentenced by the judges in question, pending review of the individual cases. If the facilities paid bribes to two judges, they may have paid them to others. If the judges extorted or accepted kickbacks for sentencing, then they may well have done so for other clients.

Hacking attacks can turn off heart monitors

Deekoo

I'm safe if only authorized people can kill me?

If I'm wearing a machine capable of killing me, I want it to beep whenever _anyone_ capable of hitting the kill switch accesses it, not just when unauthorized personnel do.

As for feasibility - $30K to induce a heart attack is too much if the goal is assassination and the killer doesn't care about getting caught. If the killer wants not to be caught and the target has a decent life insurance policy or middling political importance... people have spent more than $30K on a few seconds of advertising time.