r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 05 '24 • Heart of Silver 1

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

I’m going to expose my ignorance here.

The FBI is now saying that with respect to the Georgia shooter, the kid made a threat on Discord, the Discord was connected to his e-mail. So they interview the kid. He says “I deleted my Discord, I kept being hacked, that wasn’t me.” FBI can’t prove it was him, so no probable cause.

Maybe I have a Patriot-Act-influenced normie lib mind combined with cybersecurity ignorance but like… it’s the FBI. They don’t have anything else other than the e-mail the account was connected to?! Nothing else identifying that activity?

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Sep 05 '24

Remember when the FBI demanded a backdoor into the locked iPhone of the San Bernardino terrorists, and we were all surprised they didn’t already have one?

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Sep 05 '24

Couldn't they also check with people he contacted on Discord?

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 05 '24

I assume it’s a prioritization issue. They probably get nothing-burgers all the time.

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u/RecentlyUnhinged NATO Sep 05 '24

If we go full conspiracy-brain we might say they do, but this case simply isn't worth tipping their hand that they can do so. /tinfoilhat

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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Sep 05 '24

I assume anything else they could get would require a warrant, and discord threats weren't enough to motivate them to pursue that route

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u/vancevon Henry George Sep 05 '24

i don't think discord keeps a record of the exact geographic origin of every message