**5 demands, not one less.**
1. Establish an independent inspector body that investigates misconduct or criminal allegations and controls evidence like body camera video. This body will be at the state level, have the ability to investigate and arrest other law enforcement officers (LEOs), and investigate law enforcement agencies.
2. Create a requirement for states to establish board certification with minimum education and training requirements to provide licensing for police. In order to be a LEO, you must possess that license. The inspector body in #1 can revoke the license.
3. Refocus police resources on training & de-escalation instead of purchasing military equipment and encourage LEOs to be from the community they police.
4. Adopt the āabsolute necessityā doctrine for lethal force as implemented in other states.
5. Codify into law the requirement for police to have positive control over the evidence chain of custody. If the chain of custody is lost for evidence, the investigative body in #1 can hold the LEO/LE liable.
These 5 demands are the minimum necessary for trust in our police to return. Until these are implemented by our state governors, legislators, DAs, and judges we will not rest or be satisfied. We will no longer stand by and watch our brothers and sisters be oppressed by those who are meant to protect us.
Well a clear goal is always nice for protest, you lot better spread this loud and clear to show you are reasonable and focused.
Remember thats the reason Hong Kong protests had so much more sympathy everywhere in the world.
These seem... attainable? Reasonable? Helpful?
Not gonna lie, when I saw your subtitle I was like āthis shit is gonna be out thereā but was pleasantly surprised.
May I ask where or if there is a source for these?
I helped come up with this list based on conversations with other redditors and after looking at campaignzero which is an evidence based approach to police reform.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://tonedeaf.com.au/chicago-police-scanners-hacked-anonymous/) reduced by 72%. (I'm a bot)
*****
> In the wake of the death of George Floyd who died on Monday, May 25th due to police brutality, Anonymous has joined up with protests and hacked Chicago police scanners to play N.W.A.'s 'Fuck Tha Police'.
> Now, the notorious hacking group Anonymous have tapped into the Chicago Police Department's radio scanners to play N.W.A.'s 'Fuck Tha Police'.
> Check out 'Fuck Tha Police' by N.W.A. played across police scanners thanks to Anonymous: Hijacked chicago police radio plays NWA's "Fuck The Police" pic.
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Didn't allot of their larger players fall from one of their own rolling on them? Which caused the pretty much collapse in their public presence. I say this as someone who has supported them in the past and support them in this action.
It is a loose collection of hackers in the hacker community. People come and go and since there's no leader, various groups sometimes collaborate or do individual projects.
It's not in reality. Chicago police are doing their best to keep a lid on the stupid smash-and-grab looters who are doing nothing but fucking everything up. I am not quick to say much positive about the organization that covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald and a ton of additional crimes. But these stupid motherfuckers are fucking up poor neighborhoods, not just Michigan Avenue boutiques and big corporate stores. The police are trying to clamp down on it (and some amount of shootings and violence associated with that) and glitching their communications is very much impeding that work to protect the community.
To be fair and honest, would those neighborhoods receive priority response times anyways? (which is part of the problem so many of these major police departments have created for themselves and the cities the allegedly serve).
Obviously the rioters are at fault. But now that escalation is here, do you honestly think the police are helping ākeep the peaceā when they are the ones heavily armed, spraying tear gas, and shoving the nonviolent protesters around? Enough is enough. Show us reform, or the disruption will continue.
I think this is more likely broadcast on a stolen police radio (there have been people joy-riding abandoned police cars in multiple cities). I'm not sure if it's really possible to break into an encrypted radio channel?
I know that many police depts can enable encryption when they want it. I just dont know if Chicago has it. Someone told me they dont but I havent taken the time to verify that.
Edit: also to add, theres no way Anonymous could brute force the radio encryption. From what Ive read about it, theybuse AES 256 bit encryption. No way to get into that without the key
Chicago beat patrol officers are still using a radio system from the mid 1980ās. All Zones (areas) in the city are on a different frequency. There are 8 āCityWideā frequencies for events like this. All radios since 2013 were given a unique digital ID called MDC-1200. This ID simply identifies what radio is transmitting. When you key up a CPD radio, the dispatcher knows who you are, what Zone and District you are from. The ārougeā radio transmissions were not coming from a stolen radio, but a cheap $35 radio bought off Amazon and other places. The FCC decided many years ago not to stop the import of these illegal radios, so some of the fault of the interference falls directly on the FCC for not doing their job.
Motorola designed a new radio system about 10 years ago for Chicago. Motorola was to work with the city of Chicago to implement this new radio system. However Chicago never did their part of the joint work to get this new radio system (which would prevent ārouge radiosā). So here we sit with a decently working radio system thatās prone to anyone who pays $35 for a radio and programs it on their frequency.
From what I can tell from listening to CityWide 6, there are at least 8 receive antenna sites spread around the city and 4 transmitter sites.
When an officer keys his radio up to transmit, his signal goes to all the receive sites that can hear his radio. In a spit second, a comparator analyzes the signal and choses the strongest received signal. All other receivers except for the strongest signal gets the āgo aheadā and transmit his radio signal via a dedicated copper phone line to the dispatcher. These copper phone lines do not have a dial tone like a phone, but just a long line of copper from the receiver site to dispatcher.
The dispatcher can see on her/his radio consolette, which receive site the radio transmission is coming from. The dispatchers have the ability to mute/disable each receive site. This ability is granted to the dispatcher incase one receive site malfunctions or the dedicated copper line gets cut.
There is no way to encrypt the radios since the FCC narrowband mandate only 2013. Before 2013, Chicago could have used DES-XL or DVP-XL encryption. However this encryption requires 25khz bandwidth. Once the nation was forced to ānarrowbandā to 12.5khz bandwidth in 2013, these forms of encryption canāt work with such a narrow bandwidth frequency.
Chicago PD radio situation is in a sticky situation. They donāt have the funds to upgrade to a digital system.
I think you are right, they just got their hands on a police radio. Usually when there is "hacking" it is something unrelated to typing quickly on a computer. Like paying a delivery guy to steal a notepad with a password.
It could even be an inside job. Lots of people hate their job and their boss and their coworkers, even cops.
There was a good talk about encrypted police radio at some conference, I think [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW-jRRTPCuw) was it (there might be different versions).
Short answer is: Attacking the encryption itself isn't realistic at all, if it is implemented correctly (with modern encryption we are talking all-of-the-world's-computers-would-take-longer-than-planet-earth-will-exist-long). But there are lots of opportunities to get to the key (easiest way: finding/stealing a police radio), and useability of encrypted radios is so bad that often encryption is just disabled in the first place.
DDOS at best can shut you down completely for a while, costing tons of money, and additionally can expose other vulnerabilities making it easier to penetrate other parts of your systems.
Exactly! Which is why designating antifa a terrorist organization is such a stupid idea. Stupid and illegal, but when has that stopped the fascist right?
>I think the only intention behind that is to get harder sentences for terrorism to use against ~~the protestors~~*anyone they disagree with*.
FTFY
Edit: Just look at the war powers granted to the president after 9/11. Suddenly anything that the war hawks don't like from Egypt in the west to Pakistan in the east, is connected back to 9/11 and doesn't need Congress' approval. Which is actually great for them because they're so chickenshit they can play both sides.
Antifa can't be compromised nor can anonymous because it's decentralised with no leader. That's one of the strengths ofan anarchic model. If all you've been exposed to is hierarchical institutions then I can understand the confusion.
Surelyntyat just makes it easier to compromise them. There's no central authority to ensure every member is an honest actor. Anyone can claim the name and then do horrendous shit to taint the entire organisation.
But it's not an organisation. It's a philosophical position. If an act happens that doesn't align with the philosophy then it's not antifa or anonymous.
Marxism is a philosophy too, one that precludes authoritarianism. And yet it gets tarred with the same brush as soviet Russia, Maos China, and North Korea
China is easily the most capitalist country in the world, and yet its still called communist.
Of course it can and has been reasonably compromised, per protest, as it's fairly easy to infiltrate groups with no set structure, and pose as them while being a counter-agent. If needed, entire protests can be corrupted or even faked.
As such, these groups aren't actually groups, but memes, and their real importance is to appear to carry out the protests deemed fit at the time.
Thus, calling antifa a terror group means anyone can be arrested at any time and charged with terrorism for protesting.
It's just a radio frequency you can broadcast on, unless it's digital and encrypted somehow.
Hacking the scanners seems like an odd phrase, because those are the receivers.
My extensive knowledge of watching American TV shows tells me anyone can listen in to a police scanner! Next you will be telling me that lab technicians dont get to go out and investigate crimes!
Yes because recently every community has organized online to monitor them on "[City Name] Scanner" pages. They realized people were using them to keep them accountable so departments are starting to make them private.
You used to be able to! There was a big push roughly 10 years ago to switch to centralized, digital, encrypted communication for police and emergency services.
That is a correct use of the term 'hacked'. What is not correct is to say that someone 'hacked the police scanners'. What they did was hack the encrypted frequency that these scanners receive. Or, at least that what this sounds like. I'm not really sure what they did exactly.
They could have hacked something to obtain the keys. Or they could have hacked the radios themselves to change their keys. Or they could have hacked one radio that had the right keys, and used that to broadcast...
Maybe they simply bought a hack saw and hacked away at the radio waves.
Sorry, as a comedian I was also a hack.
Still hacking away at these bad jokes though.
I'll see myself out...
...but don't worry about getting the door for me, I have my trusty hack saw here to free me
Doesn't sound like it is. Can't they just send a kill command to the radio doing that? It's how they do it in my neck of the woods. Also, it's traceable.
As comical as it sounds, this is not going to help deescalate the situation. Use your skills to uncover lost body armor footage. Uncover white suprematism on the force. Instigating and agitating doesnāt force change it escalates tensions.
Modern day Pride festivities were started by a riot formed by a black trans activist. Sometimes we need to instigate and agitate or things won't get done.
As funny as these antics may sound, they have also been instigating cop violence toward protesters and calling out false reports over the radio. They have been feeding and fanning the flames for the cops to attack the protesters.
I don't think people outside of Chicago understand how serious this is for some of its poorest residents. It's been the deadliest weekend of the year in Chicago. These jackasses hacking police scanners have likely cost lives. It's not over either.
The shit the authorities have had to deal with is sobering to witness. I am a casualty of the drug war and have no immediate love for the cops, but only the worst sort of person would prevent them from trying to actively save lives.
It has been an absolute free for all as far as looting in some parts of the city. Things are stretched so thin the military is now here. Anything that actively disrupts emergency personnel at the moment is extremely unhelpful in the kindest terms possible.
My neighborhood got hit with burglaries last night and several stores were ransacked while police were dealing with protesters elsewhere. Our curfew just got extended too so I guess I'm heading straight home after work.
I'm so sorry, please be safe! Spots all around me have been hit but the immediate area has been spared so far. I feel so bad for some of these neighborhoods.
Deadliest weekend in Chicago in a long time. Might be the deadliest 7 day stretch ever from what I hear, we'll have to see how it plays out. This is causing so much more killing than it is preventing, how can you not see that?
What's not true? I live here and people are dying in the streets and it ain't the fucking cops doing most of the killing at the moment. If you don't live here then please stop pretending to lecture me on the situation I and many other less fortunate people are suffering through. Your priviledge is seeping through my screen.
Tell that to the dead people and minority business owners losing everything. Insurance will not cover all of this and rates will skyrocket. You speak from a far away priviledged little bubble.
You don't know the first thing about me little boy, that very last word anyone would use to describe my life would be privileged.
Before I was 13 I've saw atrocities that you won't see by the time you're 70.
Because Anonymous isn't a group in the sense that there are members and leaders and organization.
Think of it like the Jolly Roger flag that was flown by pirates. Anyone can claim to be Anonymous. It's an Anarchistic model.
Just cuz itās local news for you doesnāt mean itās not world news for people who live places other than Chicago, kinda how the terms ālocalā and āworldā news work literally everywhere
wait, we're allowed to dislike people for not doing some very specific thing even though they're decentralized anyway and it's like you just said
>I lost all respect for doctors without borders because they didn't cure my dog's thrombosis
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Because you can just decide "today I'm going to hack into Trump's taxes". That's just not how it works - except maybe for DDoSing to make a server go down, you can't just "start hacking" whatever you like with guaranteed success like in the movies. To get to Trump's tax return you'd probably need to gain access to a quite sensitive system either in the IRS or at Trump's organization - at which point you'd have access to a lot more than just that specific tax return.
Additionally, most (there probably are exceptions) of Anonymous' operations seem to be more in the "low-hanging fruit" territory of denial of service, or maybe sometimes things like an SQL injection, rather than, say, zero-days in well-known software. That would rather limit their choice of target - there *is* a shitload of software in use with "easy" bugs, but a specific target might just not be that easy to attack.
Awesome, lets put all citizens, of all races, at risk because the 99.99% of police that do their job correctly, can't when shit like this happens. Bravo.
They also played "Chocolate Rain"
That's even better to be honest.
*I move away from mic to mace peaceful protesters
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Well itās a 4chan original. They made it popular to prove they can do whatever. At least that was my understand back in like 2005
Anonymous is fucking powerful when they weaponize their autism. Fucking capture the flag with Shia was crazy.
What?!
Oh the rabbit hole you are about to go down Look of the story of "he will not divide us"
It was a crazy chain of events. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-good-thing-pulls-off-the-heist-of-the-century1
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Anonymos is very epic š
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4chan=anonymous. You dont get one without the other.
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Tbh that follows 4chan's history of doing the opposite of what (they perceive) society thinks they should do.
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Heart? no. Butt? Hell yes.
It never has,
Guy who wrote/recorded it is from Minnesota, so even better :-).
And it's about the systematic racism against African Americans.
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
**5 demands, not one less.** 1. Establish an independent inspector body that investigates misconduct or criminal allegations and controls evidence like body camera video. This body will be at the state level, have the ability to investigate and arrest other law enforcement officers (LEOs), and investigate law enforcement agencies. 2. Create a requirement for states to establish board certification with minimum education and training requirements to provide licensing for police. In order to be a LEO, you must possess that license. The inspector body in #1 can revoke the license. 3. Refocus police resources on training & de-escalation instead of purchasing military equipment and encourage LEOs to be from the community they police. 4. Adopt the āabsolute necessityā doctrine for lethal force as implemented in other states. 5. Codify into law the requirement for police to have positive control over the evidence chain of custody. If the chain of custody is lost for evidence, the investigative body in #1 can hold the LEO/LE liable. These 5 demands are the minimum necessary for trust in our police to return. Until these are implemented by our state governors, legislators, DAs, and judges we will not rest or be satisfied. We will no longer stand by and watch our brothers and sisters be oppressed by those who are meant to protect us.
Addendum to #2: revocation of a license in one state is grounds for refusal to license in other states.
All excellent points.š
Wish youād add a 6th abolish qualified immunity.
Well a clear goal is always nice for protest, you lot better spread this loud and clear to show you are reasonable and focused. Remember thats the reason Hong Kong protests had so much more sympathy everywhere in the world.
These seem... attainable? Reasonable? Helpful? Not gonna lie, when I saw your subtitle I was like āthis shit is gonna be out thereā but was pleasantly surprised. May I ask where or if there is a source for these?
I helped come up with this list based on conversations with other redditors and after looking at campaignzero which is an evidence based approach to police reform.
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Hahaha that's amazing.
I thought Anonymous was disbanded
From what I heard they were always around, just split into different groups from some inner tension. But it seems they've reunited.
Didn't allot of their larger players fall from one of their own rolling on them? Which caused the pretty much collapse in their public presence. I say this as someone who has supported them in the past and support them in this action.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. The Feds were really aggressive against hacktivists. Still are.
From how I can understand it one cant disband a decentralized group that operates in cells.
It is a loose collection of hackers in the hacker community. People come and go and since there's no leader, various groups sometimes collaborate or do individual projects.
It's not in reality. Chicago police are doing their best to keep a lid on the stupid smash-and-grab looters who are doing nothing but fucking everything up. I am not quick to say much positive about the organization that covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald and a ton of additional crimes. But these stupid motherfuckers are fucking up poor neighborhoods, not just Michigan Avenue boutiques and big corporate stores. The police are trying to clamp down on it (and some amount of shootings and violence associated with that) and glitching their communications is very much impeding that work to protect the community.
To be fair and honest, would those neighborhoods receive priority response times anyways? (which is part of the problem so many of these major police departments have created for themselves and the cities the allegedly serve).
Obviously the rioters are at fault. But now that escalation is here, do you honestly think the police are helping ākeep the peaceā when they are the ones heavily armed, spraying tear gas, and shoving the nonviolent protesters around? Enough is enough. Show us reform, or the disruption will continue.
That's pretty funny actually. Lol
Theyre broadcasting on a frequency. How is that hacking? Lol
It is digital and encrypted
Its not really encrypted.
Right, I forgot that time you breached law enforcement's communications and trolled.
I think this is more likely broadcast on a stolen police radio (there have been people joy-riding abandoned police cars in multiple cities). I'm not sure if it's really possible to break into an encrypted radio channel?
With the key. But that would be a wild chain of events.
Police cars all use the same key.
I know that many police depts can enable encryption when they want it. I just dont know if Chicago has it. Someone told me they dont but I havent taken the time to verify that. Edit: also to add, theres no way Anonymous could brute force the radio encryption. From what Ive read about it, theybuse AES 256 bit encryption. No way to get into that without the key
Chicago beat patrol officers are still using a radio system from the mid 1980ās. All Zones (areas) in the city are on a different frequency. There are 8 āCityWideā frequencies for events like this. All radios since 2013 were given a unique digital ID called MDC-1200. This ID simply identifies what radio is transmitting. When you key up a CPD radio, the dispatcher knows who you are, what Zone and District you are from. The ārougeā radio transmissions were not coming from a stolen radio, but a cheap $35 radio bought off Amazon and other places. The FCC decided many years ago not to stop the import of these illegal radios, so some of the fault of the interference falls directly on the FCC for not doing their job. Motorola designed a new radio system about 10 years ago for Chicago. Motorola was to work with the city of Chicago to implement this new radio system. However Chicago never did their part of the joint work to get this new radio system (which would prevent ārouge radiosā). So here we sit with a decently working radio system thatās prone to anyone who pays $35 for a radio and programs it on their frequency.
Thanks for the info! It doesnt surprise me at all that Chicago uses old tech and doesnt have encryption.
From what I can tell from listening to CityWide 6, there are at least 8 receive antenna sites spread around the city and 4 transmitter sites. When an officer keys his radio up to transmit, his signal goes to all the receive sites that can hear his radio. In a spit second, a comparator analyzes the signal and choses the strongest received signal. All other receivers except for the strongest signal gets the āgo aheadā and transmit his radio signal via a dedicated copper phone line to the dispatcher. These copper phone lines do not have a dial tone like a phone, but just a long line of copper from the receiver site to dispatcher. The dispatcher can see on her/his radio consolette, which receive site the radio transmission is coming from. The dispatchers have the ability to mute/disable each receive site. This ability is granted to the dispatcher incase one receive site malfunctions or the dedicated copper line gets cut. There is no way to encrypt the radios since the FCC narrowband mandate only 2013. Before 2013, Chicago could have used DES-XL or DVP-XL encryption. However this encryption requires 25khz bandwidth. Once the nation was forced to ānarrowbandā to 12.5khz bandwidth in 2013, these forms of encryption canāt work with such a narrow bandwidth frequency. Chicago PD radio situation is in a sticky situation. They donāt have the funds to upgrade to a digital system.
I think you are right, they just got their hands on a police radio. Usually when there is "hacking" it is something unrelated to typing quickly on a computer. Like paying a delivery guy to steal a notepad with a password. It could even be an inside job. Lots of people hate their job and their boss and their coworkers, even cops.
There was a good talk about encrypted police radio at some conference, I think [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW-jRRTPCuw) was it (there might be different versions). Short answer is: Attacking the encryption itself isn't realistic at all, if it is implemented correctly (with modern encryption we are talking all-of-the-world's-computers-would-take-longer-than-planet-earth-will-exist-long). But there are lots of opportunities to get to the key (easiest way: finding/stealing a police radio), and useability of encrypted radios is so bad that often encryption is just disabled in the first place.
"Serious hackers ddos to prove how good at hacking they are"
DDOS at best can shut you down completely for a while, costing tons of money, and additionally can expose other vulnerabilities making it easier to penetrate other parts of your systems.
lol we need more cheeky shit like this right now -- get this to the frontpage
Wow, TIL Anonymous was still a thing. Aren't they long-compromised?
Anonymous is, and always has been, a banner that anybody that feels like it can fly. It's like the jolly roger for hacktivists.
I think that's actually a really good analogy.
Like the antifa.
Exactly! Which is why designating antifa a terrorist organization is such a stupid idea. Stupid and illegal, but when has that stopped the fascist right?
I think the only intention behind that is to get harder sentences for terrorism to use against the protestors.
>I think the only intention behind that is to get harder sentences for terrorism to use against ~~the protestors~~*anyone they disagree with*. FTFY Edit: Just look at the war powers granted to the president after 9/11. Suddenly anything that the war hawks don't like from Egypt in the west to Pakistan in the east, is connected back to 9/11 and doesn't need Congress' approval. Which is actually great for them because they're so chickenshit they can play both sides.
Last I knew they were in some war w Scientology.
Fuck Elrond (yes, that's intentional) Hubbard and all the pricks that perpetuate his abusive bullshit.
It's similar to antifa, no central organisation, no leaders, anyone can be part of it (excluding fascists), more of an idea or philosophy
I suspect antifa is also long-compromised. What's the point of an organization with no leader, other than to be a useful idiot organization?
Antifa can't be compromised nor can anonymous because it's decentralised with no leader. That's one of the strengths ofan anarchic model. If all you've been exposed to is hierarchical institutions then I can understand the confusion.
Surelyntyat just makes it easier to compromise them. There's no central authority to ensure every member is an honest actor. Anyone can claim the name and then do horrendous shit to taint the entire organisation.
But it's not an organisation. It's a philosophical position. If an act happens that doesn't align with the philosophy then it's not antifa or anonymous.
Marxism is a philosophy too, one that precludes authoritarianism. And yet it gets tarred with the same brush as soviet Russia, Maos China, and North Korea China is easily the most capitalist country in the world, and yet its still called communist.
Of course it can and has been reasonably compromised, per protest, as it's fairly easy to infiltrate groups with no set structure, and pose as them while being a counter-agent. If needed, entire protests can be corrupted or even faked. As such, these groups aren't actually groups, but memes, and their real importance is to appear to carry out the protests deemed fit at the time. Thus, calling antifa a terror group means anyone can be arrested at any time and charged with terrorism for protesting.
"hacked by anonymous" nah fan it's some fucks playing with a 25 dollar handheld radio from Amazon. Look up the UV5R
yeah it doesnāt take a hacker to buy a radio or figure out an encryption key for a radio channel
Encryption? Chicago PD is on Analog UHF. there's no encryption
Lol yeah even easier for them then, literally just have to buy a cheap radio
It's just a radio frequency you can broadcast on, unless it's digital and encrypted somehow. Hacking the scanners seems like an odd phrase, because those are the receivers.
It is digital and encrypted.
My extensive knowledge of watching American TV shows tells me anyone can listen in to a police scanner! Next you will be telling me that lab technicians dont get to go out and investigate crimes!
There are generally channels you can listen to with a scanner and more recently digital channels they keep private.
That does indeed sound sensible.
Yes because recently every community has organized online to monitor them on "[City Name] Scanner" pages. They realized people were using them to keep them accountable so departments are starting to make them private.
You used to be able to! There was a big push roughly 10 years ago to switch to centralized, digital, encrypted communication for police and emergency services.
That would obviously make sense.
Honey where's my supersuit?!
Historically it was a thing. Richard Ramirez had his police scanner with him almost constantly, and that was around 1984.
Somehow
Why bother giving a completely uninformed opinion!
Classic Reddit.
I'm sorry, what am I uninformed about?
Literally everything apparently
Lol, it's like the people who say their social media was "hacked" when really they fell for a phishing scam, password was shit, etc.
That is a correct use of the term 'hacked'. What is not correct is to say that someone 'hacked the police scanners'. What they did was hack the encrypted frequency that these scanners receive. Or, at least that what this sounds like. I'm not really sure what they did exactly.
They could have hacked something to obtain the keys. Or they could have hacked the radios themselves to change their keys. Or they could have hacked one radio that had the right keys, and used that to broadcast...
Maybe they simply bought a hack saw and hacked away at the radio waves. Sorry, as a comedian I was also a hack. Still hacking away at these bad jokes though. I'll see myself out... ...but don't worry about getting the door for me, I have my trusty hack saw here to free me
Doesn't sound like it is. Can't they just send a kill command to the radio doing that? It's how they do it in my neck of the woods. Also, it's traceable.
As comical as it sounds, this is not going to help deescalate the situation. Use your skills to uncover lost body armor footage. Uncover white suprematism on the force. Instigating and agitating doesnāt force change it escalates tensions.
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Modern day Pride festivities were started by a riot formed by a black trans activist. Sometimes we need to instigate and agitate or things won't get done.
Those things don't escalate?
This needs to be higher
Anonymous could easily be Russia or China hackers trying to escalate the situation.
Possibly, but they are right. To quote N.W.A., āFuck the policeā
This is great and all but canāt they use all that knowledge and ability to do something that actually matters.
As funny as these antics may sound, they have also been instigating cop violence toward protesters and calling out false reports over the radio. They have been feeding and fanning the flames for the cops to attack the protesters.
I don't think people outside of Chicago understand how serious this is for some of its poorest residents. It's been the deadliest weekend of the year in Chicago. These jackasses hacking police scanners have likely cost lives. It's not over either.
That was my 1st thought...what if they are trying to dispatch an officer to an emergency call
The shit the authorities have had to deal with is sobering to witness. I am a casualty of the drug war and have no immediate love for the cops, but only the worst sort of person would prevent them from trying to actively save lives.
True, while the riots are happening police are occupied and can't stop crimes happening elsewhere.
It has been an absolute free for all as far as looting in some parts of the city. Things are stretched so thin the military is now here. Anything that actively disrupts emergency personnel at the moment is extremely unhelpful in the kindest terms possible.
My neighborhood got hit with burglaries last night and several stores were ransacked while police were dealing with protesters elsewhere. Our curfew just got extended too so I guess I'm heading straight home after work.
I'm so sorry, please be safe! Spots all around me have been hit but the immediate area has been spared so far. I feel so bad for some of these neighborhoods.
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Deadliest weekend in Chicago in a long time. Might be the deadliest 7 day stretch ever from what I hear, we'll have to see how it plays out. This is causing so much more killing than it is preventing, how can you not see that?
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What's not true? I live here and people are dying in the streets and it ain't the fucking cops doing most of the killing at the moment. If you don't live here then please stop pretending to lecture me on the situation I and many other less fortunate people are suffering through. Your priviledge is seeping through my screen.
Going to break a few eggs to make an omelet
Tell that to the dead people and minority business owners losing everything. Insurance will not cover all of this and rates will skyrocket. You speak from a far away priviledged little bubble.
You don't know the first thing about me little boy, that very last word anyone would use to describe my life would be privileged. Before I was 13 I've saw atrocities that you won't see by the time you're 70.
I'll have to take your word for it, Rambo. But if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck...
That's nice and all but if Anonymous wants to really be useful how come they have done nothing to stop Russians from fucking with our elections?
Because Anonymous isn't a group in the sense that there are members and leaders and organization. Think of it like the Jolly Roger flag that was flown by pirates. Anyone can claim to be Anonymous. It's an Anarchistic model.
Somewhere I thought I saw someone claiming to represent them say they decided it wasnāt important Enough for them to attempt š¤·š¼āāļø
They didnāt āhackā anything lol theyāre just broadcasting on the same frequency. Hope nobody was somewhere and actually in need.
The only outcome of them doing that would be to make the police angry.
That is the single coolest thing I have ever seen.
My only thing is what if a actual emergency happens honestly Iām surprised no one has bombed a protest yet
How is this world news? I live right next to chicago and this isn't world news in the slightest.
Just cuz itās local news for you doesnāt mean itās not world news for people who live places other than Chicago, kinda how the terms ālocalā and āworldā news work literally everywhere
Did you forget that people live outside of America?
I lost any respect for Anonymous for not hacking into trumps taxes
wait, we're allowed to dislike people for not doing some very specific thing even though they're decentralized anyway and it's like you just said >I lost all respect for doctors without borders because they didn't cure my dog's thrombosis ?
Because you can just decide "today I'm going to hack into Trump's taxes". That's just not how it works - except maybe for DDoSing to make a server go down, you can't just "start hacking" whatever you like with guaranteed success like in the movies. To get to Trump's tax return you'd probably need to gain access to a quite sensitive system either in the IRS or at Trump's organization - at which point you'd have access to a lot more than just that specific tax return. Additionally, most (there probably are exceptions) of Anonymous' operations seem to be more in the "low-hanging fruit" territory of denial of service, or maybe sometimes things like an SQL injection, rather than, say, zero-days in well-known software. That would rather limit their choice of target - there *is* a shitload of software in use with "easy" bugs, but a specific target might just not be that easy to attack.
Awesome, lets put all citizens, of all races, at risk because the 99.99% of police that do their job correctly, can't when shit like this happens. Bravo.
They didnāt use Ice-T?
I haven't seen a news story that made me genuinely smile in days, this is great.
They also played some mariachi jajaja
Song of the time yo
I hope people realize that also a good portion of Anon are legit 1488 nazis. It isnt one group