And that’s how we started on the road to a surveillance state
How sad for you
Submitted 2 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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akilou@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 2 months ago
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I love the spelling mistake to convey the real message.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 months ago
True story.
This is back in the 1960s. A Texas bank is putting up a new building and sets up a temporary office in a trailer. There’s a one ton safe in the trailer. A crook figures that a dozen strong guys would have no problem lifting the safe by hand and carrying it out. He puts together a team and they do the job. Something goes wrong and they end up dropping the safe. One crook’s finger is caught under the safe. He manages to get away, but when the police lift the safe they find his finger tip. And yes, they had his fingerprints on file.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fingerprint matching in the 60s sounds, uh, time intensive.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If you want to go down a rabbithole, look up the early days of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.
Hoover got the job because he was a bureaucrat, not a lawman. He would have his people build giant files by hand on anyone of interest.
VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Fingered by the law
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Doesn’t matter, got fingered